1. The Times, 14 June 1919, p. 8. The letter is from Ralph Williams, a former British colonial administrator, who had worked in Bechuanaland and been governor of the Windward Islands.
2. One of the few studies of miscegenation in interwar Britain is Laura Tabili's excellent ' "Women of a Very Low Type": Crossing Racial Boundaries in Imperial Britain', in Laura Frader and Sonya O. Rose (eds)Gender and Class in Modern Europe(Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996), pp. 165-90.
3. Robert Young,Colonial Desire: Hybridity in Theory, Culture and Race(London: Routledge, 1995), pp. 144-6.
4. Eric Hobsbawn,Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century, 1914-1991(London: Abacus, 1995).
5. Fernando Henriques,Children of Caliban: Miscegenation(London: Secker & Warburg, 1974), ch. 9; Jennifer DeVere Brody,Impossible Purities: Blackness, Femininity and Victorian Culture(Durham: Duke University Press, 1998).