In this episode of Bookable Space we're joined by Chris Dickon reading Dutch Children of African American Liberators.

About the book:

In the Netherlands, a small group of biracial citizens has entered its eighth decade of lives that have been often puzzling and difficult, but which offer a unique insight into the history of race relations in America. Though their African American fathers had brought liberation from Nazi tyranny at the end of World War II, they were in a segregated American military derived from a racially divided American society. Decades later, some of their children could finally know of a father's identity and the life he had led after the war. Just one would be able to find an embrace in his arms, and just one would arrive at her father's American grave after 73 years. But they could now understand their own Dutch lives in the context of their fathers' lives in America.

About the author:

Chris Dickon is a former, Emmy and multi-award winning public radio and television producer who brings the qualities of broadcast storytelling to books that tell little known but important stories of American history. His most recent work has focused on the human elements of war, developed new information in their subject matters, and played a role in an expanded discovery and memorial of American war dead buried around the world. many of them previously unknown since 1804. Dutch Children of African American Liberators, with co-author Mieke Kirkels in the Netherlands, tells the story of the European children of African American soldiers of World War II and has been honored as Best Multi-cultural Nonfiction of 2021 by the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society. He lives in Portsmouth, Virginia.

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