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Not So Plain as Black and White : Afro-German Culture and History, 1890-2000
Title
Not So Plain as Black and White : Afro-German Culture and History, 1890-2000 / edited by Patricia Mazón and Reinhild Steingröver ; with a foreword by Russell Berman.
ISBN
9781580466783
9781580461832
Publication
Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, [2005]
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2023
Copyright Notice Date
©[2005]
Physical Description
1 online resource (266 pages): illustrations
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Summary
"After World War II, "brown babies" 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." "As editors Patricia Mazon and Reinhild Steingrover argue, the experience of Afro-Germans provides insight into contemporary Germany's transformation, willing or not, into a multicultural society. Furthermore, looking at Afro-Germans allows us to see another dimension of the ideas of race that shaped the twentieth century and led to the Holocaust."--Jacket
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Project Muse books annual backfile collection 2023.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 17, 2024
Series
Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora ; volume 19
Contents
pt. 1: Afro-Germans in historical perspective. Dangerous liaisons: race, nation, and German identity / Fatima El-Tayeb ; The first Besatzungskinder: Afro-German children, colonial childrearing practices, and racial policy in German southwest Africa, 1890-1914 / Krista Molly O'Donnell ; Converging specters of an other within: race and gender in pre-1945 Afro-German history / Tina M. Campt
pt. 2: Cultural representations and self-representations of Afro-Germans. 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 ; Will everything be fine? Anti-racist practice in recent German cinema / Randall Halle ; Writing diasporic identity: Afro-German literature since 1985 / Leroy Hopkins ; The souls of Black Volk: Contradiction? Oxymoron? / Anne Adams.
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