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The women, the men and their children faced innumerable obstacles.<\/p>\n<p><em>Censured<\/em> reveals the extent to which the African-American press was at the forefront in resisting the treatment of biracial children and contesting the racist assumptions towards them. Headlines like \u2018BROWN BABIES: Britain wants to Get Rid of Them\u2019 were part of a sustained campaign challenging attitudes and policies rooted in Britain\u2019s own history of racism and imperial arrogance.<\/p>\n<p>Segregation and discrimination in the US did little to inspire confidence that America could offer a promising future. Richardson\u2019s research into Gillian\u2019s life-story illuminates and adds to a much larger history of a generation of children growing up against widespread prejudice on both sides of the Atlantic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Richardson\u2019s intriguing account of his aunt, Beatrice Richardson and her biracial daughter Gillian, brings into stark relief the racism and sexism that existed in Britain during and after the Second World War. 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