Germany and the Black Diaspora

Germany and the Black Diaspora
Author: Mischa Honeck
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2013-07-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0857459546

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

Black Germany
Author: Robbie Aitken
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 383
Release: 2013-09-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107041368

A groundbreaking account of the development of Germany's first African community, which offers fascinating perspectives on transnational German history.

Mobilizing Black Germany

Mobilizing Black Germany
Author: Tiffany N. Florvil
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 427
Release: 2020-12-28
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0252052390

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.

Not So Plain as Black and White

Not So Plain as Black and White
Author: Patricia M. Mazón
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2005
Genre: History
ISBN: 1580461832

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.

White Rebels in Black

White Rebels in Black
Author: Priscilla Layne
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2018-03-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 0472130803

Investigates the appropriation of black popular culture as a symbol of rebellion in postwar Germany

Remapping Black Germany

Remapping Black Germany
Author: Sara Lennox
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: African Americans
ISBN: 9781625342300

A major contribution to Black-German studies

Becoming Black

Becoming Black
Author: Michelle M. Wright
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2004
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780822332886

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

Hitler's Black Victims

Hitler's Black Victims
Author: Clarence Lusane
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2004-11-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 1135955239

Drawing on interviews with the black survivors of Nazi concentration camps and archival research in North America, Europe, and Africa, this book documents and analyzes the meaning of Nazism's racial policies towards people of African descent, specifically those born in Germany, England, France, the United States, and Africa, and the impact of that legacy on contemporary race relations in Germany, and more generally, in Europe. The book also specifically addresses the concerns of those surviving Afro-Germans who were victims of Nazism, but have not generally been included in or benefited from the compensation agreements that have been developed in recent years.

Crosscurrents

Crosscurrents
Author: David McBride
Publisher: Camden House
Total Pages: 286
Release: 1998
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781571130983

Studies of aspects of historical interaction between Germany, Africa and black America. This volume brings together fascinating research on the historical interaction between Germany, African nations and Black Americans. Leading scholars explore the influence of German missions, language and culture, politics, and science on Africa and Black America. Essays examine the medieval links between Germany and Africa, encounters between immigrant Germans and America's African population during the colonial era; the influence of German culture and natinalism on African-American social elites studying in Germany throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; Black American musical performers in Weimar Germany; and the shifting contacts among Black Americans, Germany, and Africa as Germany led Western modernization and expansionism during the twentieth century. The authors present a variety of disciplines and use heretofore untapped sources from German, American, and African depositories.