Not so plain as Black and White : Afro-German culture and history, 1890-2000
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Not so plain as Black and White : Afro-German culture and history, 1890-2000
(Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora)
University of Rochester Press, 2005
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-240) and index
Description and Table of Contents
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.
Since the Middle Ages, Africans have lived in Germany as slaves and scholars, guest workers and refugees. After Germany became a unified nation in 1871, it acquired several African colonies but lost them after World War I. Children born of German mothers and African fathers during the French occupation of Germany were persecuted by the Nazis. After World War II, many children were born to African American GIs stationed in Germany and German mothers. Today there are 500,000 Afro-Germans in Germany out of a population of 80 million. Nevertheless, German society still sees them as "foreigners," assuming they are either African or African American but never German.
In recent years, the subject of Afro-Germans has captured the interest of scholars across the humanities for several reasons. Looking at Afro-Germans allows us to see another dimension of the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century ideas of race that led to the Holocaust. Furthermore, the experience of Afro-Germans provides insight into contemporary Germany's transformation, willing or not, into a multicultural society. The volume breaks new ground not onlyby addressing the topic of Afro-Germans but also by combining scholars from many disciplines.
Patricia Mazon is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
Reinhild Steingrover is Assistant Professor in the Department of Humanities at the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester.
Table of Contents
Dangerous Liaisons: Race, Nation, and German Identity - Fatima El-Tayeb Ph.D.
The First Besatzungskinder: Afro-German Children, Colonial Childrearing Practices, and Racial Policy in German Southwest Africa, 1890-1914 - Krista Molly O'Donnell-Associate Professor
Converging Specters of an Other Within: Race and Gender in Pre- 1945 Afro-German History - Tina M. Campt-Assoc. Professor
Louis Brody and the Black Presence in German Film Before 1945 - Tobias Nagl
Narrating "Race" in 1950s' West Germany: The Phenomenon of the Toxi Films - Heide Fehrenbach - Assoc. Professor
Will Everything Be Fine? Anti-Racist Practice in Recent German Cinema -
Writing Diasporic Identity: Afro-German Literature since 1985 - Leroy T. Hopkins Jr.
The Souls of Black Volk: Contradiction? Oxymoron? - Anne V. Adams
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