Author: Mischa Honeck
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 0857459546
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
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.
Germany and the Black Diaspora
Author: Mischa Honeck
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 0857459546
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 0857459546
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
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.
Black Germany
Author: Robbie Aitken
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107041368
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
A groundbreaking account of the development of Germany's first African community, which offers fascinating perspectives on transnational German history.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107041368
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
A groundbreaking account of the development of Germany's first African community, which offers fascinating perspectives on transnational German history.
Mobilizing Black Germany
Author: Tiffany N. Florvil
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252052390
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 427
Book Description
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.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252052390
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 427
Book Description
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.
Black Germany
Author: Robbie Aitken
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107041368
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
A groundbreaking account of the development of Germany's first African community, which offers fascinating perspectives on transnational German history.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107041368
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
A groundbreaking account of the development of Germany's first African community, which offers fascinating perspectives on transnational German history.
Not So Plain as Black and White
Author: Patricia M. Mazón
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1580461832
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1580461832
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
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.
Remapping Black Germany
Author: Sara Lennox
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781625342300
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A major contribution to Black-German studies
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781625342300
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A major contribution to Black-German studies
White Rebels in Black
Author: Priscilla Layne
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472130803
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Investigates the appropriation of black popular culture as a symbol of rebellion in postwar Germany
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472130803
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Investigates the appropriation of black popular culture as a symbol of rebellion in postwar Germany
Other Germans
Author: Tina Campt
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472113606
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Tells the story, through analysis and oral history, of a nearly forgotten minority under Hitler's regime
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472113606
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Tells the story, through analysis and oral history, of a nearly forgotten minority under Hitler's regime
Germans and African Americans
Author: Larry A. Greene
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781604737851
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Germans and African Americans, unlike other works on African Americans in Europe, examines the relationship between African Americans and one country, Germany, in great depth. Germans and African Americans encountered one another within the context of their national identities and group experiences. In the nineteenth century, German immigrants to America and to such communities as Charleston and Cincinnati interacted within the boundaries of their old-world experiences and ideas and within surrounding regional notions of a nation fracturing over slavery. In the post-Civil War era in America through the Weimar era, Germany became a place to which African American entertainers, travelers, and intellectuals such as W. E. B. Du Bois could go to escape American racism and find new opportunities. With the rise of the Third Reich, Germany became the personification of racism, and African Americans in the 1930s and 1940s could use Hitler's evil example to goad America about its own racist practices. Postwar West Germany regained the image as a land more tolerant to African American soldiers than America. African Americans were important to Cold War discourse, especially in the internal ideological struggle between Communist East Germany and democratic West Germany. Unlike many other countries in Europe, Germany has played a variety of different and conflicting roles in the African American narrative and relationship with Europe. It is this diversity of roles that adds to the complexity of African American and German interactions and mutual perceptions over time.
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781604737851
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Germans and African Americans, unlike other works on African Americans in Europe, examines the relationship between African Americans and one country, Germany, in great depth. Germans and African Americans encountered one another within the context of their national identities and group experiences. In the nineteenth century, German immigrants to America and to such communities as Charleston and Cincinnati interacted within the boundaries of their old-world experiences and ideas and within surrounding regional notions of a nation fracturing over slavery. In the post-Civil War era in America through the Weimar era, Germany became a place to which African American entertainers, travelers, and intellectuals such as W. E. B. Du Bois could go to escape American racism and find new opportunities. With the rise of the Third Reich, Germany became the personification of racism, and African Americans in the 1930s and 1940s could use Hitler's evil example to goad America about its own racist practices. Postwar West Germany regained the image as a land more tolerant to African American soldiers than America. African Americans were important to Cold War discourse, especially in the internal ideological struggle between Communist East Germany and democratic West Germany. Unlike many other countries in Europe, Germany has played a variety of different and conflicting roles in the African American narrative and relationship with Europe. It is this diversity of roles that adds to the complexity of African American and German interactions and mutual perceptions over time.
Becoming Black
Author: Michelle M. Wright
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822332886
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
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
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822332886
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
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