Black Germany

Author : Tiffany N. Florvil
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780252052392

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Mobilizing Black Germany by Tiffany N. Florvil Pdf

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 : Mischa Honeck,Martin Klimke,Anne Kuhlmann
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857459541

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Germany and the Black Diaspora by Mischa Honeck,Martin Klimke,Anne Kuhlmann Pdf

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 : Robbie Aitken,Eve Rosenhaft
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107041363

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Black Germany by Robbie Aitken,Eve Rosenhaft Pdf

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

Author : Hans Massaquoi
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780061856600

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Destined to Witness by Hans Massaquoi Pdf

This is a story of the unexpected.In Destined to Witness, Hans Massaquoi has crafted a beautifully rendered memoir -- an astonishing true tale of how he came of age as a black child in Nazi Germany. The son of a prominent African and a German nurse, Hans remained behind with his mother when Hitler came to power, due to concerns about his fragile health, after his father returned to Liberia. Like other German boys, Hans went to school; like other German boys, he swiftly fell under the Fuhrer's spell. So he was crushed to learn that, as a black child, he was ineligible for the Hitler Youth. His path to a secondary education and an eventual profession was blocked. He now lived in fear that, at any moment, he might hear the Gestapo banging on the door -- or Allied bombs falling on his home. Ironic,, moving, and deeply human, Massaquoi's account of this lonely struggle for survival brims with courage and intelligence.

Author : Sara Lennox
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 1625342306

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Remapping Black Germany by Sara Lennox Pdf

A major contribution to Black-German studies

Author : Robbie Aitken,Eve Rosenhaft
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107041363

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Black Germany by Robbie Aitken,Eve Rosenhaft Pdf

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

Author : Theodor Michael
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
ISBN : 9781781383117

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Black German by Theodor Michael Pdf

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 : Priscilla Layne
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472130801

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White Rebels in Black by Priscilla Layne Pdf

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

Author : Tina Campt
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0472113607

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Other Germans by Tina Campt Pdf

Tells the story, through analysis and oral history, of a nearly forgotten minority under Hitler's regime

Author : Firpo W. Carr
Publisher : ScholarTechnological Institute of Research
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 0963129341

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Germany's Black Holocaust, 1890-1945 by Firpo W. Carr Pdf

Author : Tina Marie Campt
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009-02-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472021604

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Other Germans by Tina Marie Campt Pdf

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 : Heide Fehrenbach
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2007-07-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691133799

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Race After Hitler by Heide Fehrenbach Pdf

Heide Fehrenbach traces the complex history of German attitudes to race following 1945 by focusing on the experiences of and the debates surrounding the several thousand postwar children born to African American GIs and their German partners.

Author : Ika Hügel-Marshall
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1433102781

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Invisible Woman by Ika Hügel-Marshall Pdf

"Invisible Woman: Growing Up Black in Germany, republished in a new annotated edition, recounts Ika Hügel-Marshall's experiences growing up as the daughter of a white German woman and an African-American man after World War II. As an «occupation baby», born in a small German town in 1947, Ika has a double stigma: Not only has she been born out of wedlock, but she is also Black. Although loved by her mother, Ika's experiences with German society's reaction to her skin color resonate with the insidiousness of racism, thus instilling in her a longing to meet her biological father. When she is seven, the state places her into a church-affiliated orphanage far away from where her mother, sister, and stepfather live. She is exposed to the scorn and cruelty of the nuns entrusted with her care. Despite the institutionalized racism, Ika overcomes these hurdles, and finally, when she is in her forties, she locates her father with the help of a good friend and discovers that she has a loving family in Chicago."--Publisher description.

Author : Clarence Lusane
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2004-11-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135955243

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Hitler's Black Victims by Clarence Lusane Pdf

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.

Author : Monica Black
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781250225665

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A Demon-Haunted Land by Monica Black Pdf

“A Demon-Haunted Land is absorbing, gripping, and utterly fascinating... Beautifully written, without even a hint of jargon or pretension, it casts a significant and unexpected new light on the early phase of the Federal Republic of Germany’s history. Black’s analysis of the copious, largely unknown archival sources on which the book is based is unfailingly subtle and intelligent.” —Richard J. Evans, The New Republic In the aftermath of World War II, a succession of mass supernatural events swept through war-torn Germany. A messianic faith healer rose to extraordinary fame, prayer groups performed exorcisms, and enormous crowds traveled to witness apparitions of the Virgin Mary. Most strikingly, scores of people accused their neighbors of witchcraft, and found themselves in turn hauled into court on charges of defamation, assault, and even murder. What linked these events, in the wake of an annihilationist war and the Holocaust, was a widespread preoccupation with evil. While many histories emphasize Germany’s rapid transition from genocidal dictatorship to liberal democracy, A Demon-Haunted Land places in full view the toxic mistrust, profound bitterness, and spiritual malaise that unfolded alongside the economic miracle. Drawing on previously unpublished archival materials, acclaimed historian Monica Black argues that the surge of supernatural obsessions stemmed from the unspoken guilt and shame of a nation remarkably silent about what was euphemistically called “the most recent past.” This shadow history irrevocably changes our view of postwar Germany, revealing the country’s fraught emotional life, deep moral disquiet, and the cost of trying to bury a horrific legacy.