In summer 1947, African American anthropologist John Gibbs St. Clair Drake arrived in Tiger Bay, the port neighborhood of Cardiff in South Wales, to begin field work for his doctoral thesis, “Race Relations in the British Isles.” Drake's academic reputation had already been established by the publication of Black Metropolis (1945), a seminal study of Chicago's so-called Black Belt that Drake co-authored with researcher Horace Cayton. What attracted him to Tiger Bay for his next project was a scandal that erupted on both sides of the Atlantic around Britain's growing population of what were referred to as brown babies. These children were the product of sexual encounters that sometimes took place between local white women and some of the 200,000 African American GIs who were at different points stationed across the United Kingdom during the later part of the Second World War. Using the extensive field notes Drake kept during his sojourn in Cardiff, this article reconstructs the nature and feel of a neighborhood where, by the 1940s, half of all residents were from ethnic minority backgrounds. Drake's work serves as a window onto the nature of racism and ideas about race in late-imperial Britain, alongside the parallel presence of metropolitan community life in Tiger Bay, one of Britain's oldest multicultural communities.

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威尔士的一位非裔美国人类学家：圣克莱尔·德雷克和跨大西洋种族关系生态

1947 年夏天，非裔美国人类学家约翰·吉布斯·圣克莱尔·德雷克 (John Gibbs St. Clair Drake) 抵达南威尔士卡迪夫的港口附近老虎湾，开始为他的博士论文《不列颠群岛的种族关系》进行实地考察。德雷克的学术声誉已经通过出版黑色大都会（1945），德雷克与研究员霍勒斯·凯顿（Horace Cayton）共同撰写的关于芝加哥所谓黑带的开创性研究。吸引他来到老虎湾进行下一个项目的是大西洋两岸围绕英国不断增长的人口而爆发的丑闻。棕色婴儿。这些孩子是当地白人妇女与第二次世界大战后期驻扎在英国不同地点的 20 万非裔美国大兵中的一些人发生性接触的产物。本文利用 Drake 在卡迪夫逗留期间保留的大量实地记录，重建了这个社区的性质和感觉，到 20 世纪 40 年代，该社区一半的居民来自少数族裔背景。德雷克的作品是了解英国帝国晚期种族主义本质和种族观念的窗口，同时也展现了英国最古老的多元文化社区之一老虎湾的大都市社区生活。