Germany And The Black Diaspora
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Author | : Mischa Honeck |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2013-07-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0857459546 |
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The rich history of encounters prior to World War I between people from German-speaking parts of Europe and people of African descent has gone largely unnoticed in the historical literature—not least because Germany became a nation and engaged in colonization much later than other European nations. This volume presents intersections of Black and German history over eight centuries while mapping continuities and ruptures in Germans' perceptions of Blacks. Juxtaposing these intersections demonstrates that negative German perceptions of Blackness proceeded from nineteenth-century racial theories, and that earlier constructions of “race” were far more differentiated. The contributors present a wide range of Black–German encounters, from representations of Black saints in religious medieval art to Black Hessians fighting in the American Revolutionary War, from Cameroonian children being educated in Germany to African American agriculturalists in Germany's protectorate, Togoland. Each chapter probes individual and collective responses to these intercultural points of contact.
Author | : Tiffany N. Florvil |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 427 |
Release | : 2020-12-28 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0252052390 |
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In the 1980s and 1990s, Black German women began to play significant roles in challenging the discrimination in their own nation and abroad. Their grassroots organizing, writings, and political and cultural activities nurtured innovative traditions, ideas, and practices. These strategies facilitated new, often radical bonds between people from disparate backgrounds across the Black Diaspora. Tiffany N. Florvil examines the role of queer and straight women in shaping the contours of the modern Black German movement as part of the Black internationalist opposition to racial and gender oppression. Florvil shows the multifaceted contributions of women to movement making, including Audre Lorde’s role in influencing their activism; the activists who inspired Afro-German women to curate their own identities and histories; and the evolution of the activist groups Initiative of Black Germans and Afro-German Women. These practices and strategies became a rallying point for isolated and marginalized women (and men) and shaped the roots of contemporary Black German activism. Richly researched and multidimensional in scope, Mobilizing Black Germany offers a rare in-depth look at the emergence of the modern Black German movement and Black feminists’ politics, intellectualism, and internationalism.
Author | : Robbie Aitken |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 383 |
Release | : 2013-09-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107041368 |
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A groundbreaking account of the development of Germany's first African community, which offers fascinating perspectives on transnational German history.
Author | : Robbie Aitken |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 383 |
Release | : 2013-09-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107435641 |
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This groundbreaking history traces the development of Germany's black community, from its origins in colonial Africa to its decimation by the Nazis during World War II. Robbie Aitken and Eve Rosenhaft follow the careers of Africans arriving from the colonies, examining why and where they settled, their working lives and their political activities, and giving unprecedented attention to gender, sexuality and the challenges of 'mixed marriage'. Addressing the networks through which individuals constituted community, Aitken and Rosenhaft explore the ways in which these relationships spread beyond ties of kinship and birthplace to constitute communities as 'black'. The study also follows a number of its protagonists to France and back to Africa, providing new insights into the roots of Francophone black consciousness and postcolonial memory. Including an in-depth account of the impact of Nazism and its aftermath, this book offers a fresh critical perspective on narratives of 'race' in German history.
Author | : Patricia M. Mazón |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 267 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1580461832 |
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An exploration of the subject of Afro-Germans, which, in recent years has captured the interest of scholars across the humanities for providing insight into contemporary Germany's transformation into a multicultural society.
Author | : Priscilla Layne |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2018-03-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0472130803 |
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Investigates the appropriation of black popular culture as a symbol of rebellion in postwar Germany
Author | : Michelle M. Wright |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780822332886 |
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DIVA theoretical troubling of the assumptions of uniformity in Blackness, comparing writings by and about African diasporic subjects from the U.S., Britain, France, and Germany./div
Author | : Tina Marie Campt |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2009-02-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0472021605 |
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It's hard to imagine an issue or image more riveting than Black Germans during the Third Reich. Yet accounts of their lives are virtually nonexistent, despite the fact that they lived through a regime dedicated to racial purity. Tina Campt's Other Germans tells the story of this largely forgotten group of individuals, with important distinctions from other accounts. Most strikingly, Campt centers her arguments on race, rather than anti-semitism. She also provides oral history as background for her study, interviewing two Black Germans for the book. In the end, the author comes face to face with an inevitable question: Is there a relationship between the history of Black Germans and those of other black communities? The answers to Campt's questions make Other Germans essential reading in the emerging study of what it meant to be black and German in the context of a society that looked at anyone with non-German blood as racially impure at best.
Author | : Theodor Michael |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY |
ISBN | : 1781383111 |
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This is the first English translation of an important document in the history of the black presence in Germany and Europe: the autobiography of Theodor Michael. Theodor Michael is among the few surviving members of the first generation of 'Afro-Germans': Born in Germany in 1925 to a Cameroonian father and a German mother, he grew up in Berlin in the last days of the Weimar Republic. As a child and teenager he worked in circuses and films and experienced the tightening knot of racial discrimination under the Nazis in the years before the Second World War. He survived the war as a forced labourer, founding a family and making a career as a journalist and actor in post-war West Germany. Since the 1980s he has become an important spokesman for the black German consciousness movement, acting as a human link between the first black German community of the inter-war period, the pan-Africanism of the 1950s and 1960s, and new generations of Germans of African descent. Theodor Michael's life story is a classic account of coming to consciousness of a man who understands himself as both black and German; accordingly, it illuminates key aspects of modern German social history as well as of the post-war history of the African diaspora. The text has been translated by Eve Rosenhaft, Professor of German Historical Studies at the University of Liverpool and an internationally acknowledged expert in Black German studies. It is accompanied by a translator's preface, explanatory notes, a chronology of historical events and a guide to further reading, so that the book will be accessible and useful both for general readers and for undergraduate students.
Author | : Sara Lennox |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : 9781625342300 |
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A major contribution to Black-German studies