Mothers' Darlings of the South Pacific : : The Children of Indigenous Women and U.S. Servicemen, World War II / / ed. by Judith A. Bennett, Angela Wanhalla.
Over the course of World War II, two million American military personnel occupied bases throughout the South Pacific, leaving behind a human legacy of at least 4,000 children born to indigenous mothers. Based on interviews conducted with many of these American-indigenous children and several of the...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (404 p.) :; 92 b&w illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Prologue: War Comes to the Pacific
- Introduction: A New Net Goes Fishing
- 1. Bora Bora: “Like a Dream”
- 2. “There Are No Commoners in Samoa”
- 3. New Caledonia: The Experiences of a War Bride and Her Children
- 4. No Bali Ha‘i: New Hebrides
- 5. Wallis (Uvea) Island: A Different Kind of Love Story
- Tonga in the Time of the Americans
- 7. Kai Merika! Fijian Children of American Servicemen
- 8. “I Don’t Like Maori Girls Going Out with Yanks”: Māori-American Encounters in New Zealand
- 9. The Solomon Islands: Off the Radar
- 10. Marike Koe: The American Children of the Cook Islands
- 11. On the Atolls: Gilbert Islands
- Epilogue
- Appendix 1
- Appendix 2
- Notes
- References
- Contributors
- Index