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Selected Books
Beyond Exceptionalism: Traces of slavery and the slave trade in early modern Germany, 1650-1850 by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9783110748697Publication Date: 2021While the economic involvement of early modern Germany in slavery and the slave trade is increasingly receiving attention, the direct participation of Germans in human trafficking remains a blind spot in historiography. This edited volume focuses on practices of enslavement taking place within German territories in the early modern period as well as on the people of African, Asian, and Native American descent caught up in them.
Staging Blackness and Performing Whiteness in Eighteenth-Century German Drama by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781317050865Publication Date: 2017Examines how representations of race in philosophy, anthropology, aesthetics, drama, and court painting influenced the construction of a white bourgeois German self. Sutherland positions her work within the framework of the transatlantic slave trade, showing that slavery, colonialism, and the triangular trade between Europe, West Africa, and the Caribbean function as the global stage on which German bourgeois dramas by Friedrich Wilhelm Ziegler, Ernst Lorenz Rathlef, and Theodor Körner (and a novella by Heinrich von Kleist on which Körner's play was based) were performed against a backdrop of philosophical and anthropological influences.
On Blackness Without Blacks: Essays on the Image of the Black in Germany by Call Number: TC Wilson Library General Collection PT149.B55 G54 1982ISBN: 9780816190263Publication Date: 1982
Blackness in Western Europe : racial patterns of paternalism and exclusion by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781412854184Publication Date: 2014The author identifies ideas and attitudes toward "blackness," the concept of race as visible difference, developed in western Europe. She argues that racial discourses are generally dominated by paternalism--a concept usually used to explain power structures that is often applied to the nineteenth century. Hondius identifies five patterns of paternalism that influenced Europe much earlier and iniated trends of imagery and perception.Taking a chronological and thematic approach, Hondius first focuses on southern European societies in the Early Modern period and moves to northwest European societies in the Modern period.
Germany and the Black Diaspora by Call Number: eBook; also available in printISBN: 9780857459534Publication Date: 2013The 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.
