TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bennett,Judith A.
AU  - Wanhalla,Angela
TI  - Mothers' darlings of the South Pacific: the children of indigenous women and US servicemen, World War II 
SN  - 0824851528
AV  - DU28.1.P25 M68 2016
U1  - 940.531610830995 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Honolulu
PB  - University of Hawaiʻi Press
KW  - Pacific Islander Americans
KW  - Oceania
KW  - Children of military personnel
KW  - Abandoned children
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Prologue: War comes to the Pacific /Judith A. Bennett -- Introduction: A new net goes fishing /Judith A. Bennett and Angela Wanhalla -- 1. Bora Bora : "like a dream" /Judith A. Bennett -- 2. "There are no commoners in Samoa" /Saui'a Louise T. Mataia-Milo -- 3. New Caledonia :the experiences of a war bride and her children /Kathryn Creely -- 4. No Bali Ha'i: New Hebrides /Judith A. Bennett -- 5. Wallis (Uvea) Island: a different kind of love story /Judith A. Bennett -- 6. Tonga in the time of the Americans /Judith A. Bennett -- 7. Kai Merika! Fijian children of American servicemen /Jacqueline Leckie and Alumita Durutalo -- 8. "I don't like Maori girls going out with Yanks": Maori-American encounters in New Zealand /Angela Wanhalla and Kate Stevens -- 9. The Solomon Islands: off the radar /Judith A. Bennett -- 10. Marike koe: the American children of the Cook Islands /Rosemary Anderson -- 11. On the atolls: Gilbert Islands /Judith A. Bennett -- Epilogue /Angela Wanhalla, Judith A. Bennett, and Rosemary Anderson
N2  - "Like a human tsunami, World War II brought two million American servicemen to the South Pacific where they left a human legacy of some thousands of children. Mothers' Darlings of the South Pacific traces the intimate relationships that existed in the wartime South Pacific between U.S. servicemen and Indigenous women, and considers the fate of the resulting children. The American military command carefully managed intimate relationships in the Pacific Theater, applying U.S. immigration law based on race on Pacific peoples of color to prevent marriage "across the color line." For Indigenous women and their American servicemen sweethearts, legal marriage was impossible, giving rise to a generation of children known as "G.I. Babies." Among these Pacific war children, one thing common to almost all is the longing to know more about their American father. Mothers' Darlings of the South Pacific traces these children's stories of loss, emotion, longing, and identity, and of lives lived in the shadow of global war." -- Publisher's website
ER  -