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'You wouldn't want your daughter marrying one': parental intervention into mixed‐race relationships in post‐war Britain.

Mixed‐race relationships and 'miscegenation', particularly between men of colour and white women became the central issue for white perceptions of race in post‐war and post‐Windrush Britain. While 'race‐relations' discourse described the 'dark strangers in our midst', concerns about the 'new' presen...

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Published in:Historical Research Vol. 92; no. 256; pp. 432 - 445
Main Author: Maguire, Anna
Format: Article
Published: Oxford University Press / USA May2019
Subjects:
Interracial couples
Interracial marriage
Race relations in Great Britain
People of color
White women
Post-World War II Period
Authoritative parenting
Race relations
West Indies
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