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Selected books
Mobilizing Black Germany by
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.
Call Number: eBook; also available in printISBN: 9780252043512Publication Date: 2020
Germany and the Black Diaspora by
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.
Call Number: eBook; also available in printISBN: 9780857459541Publication Date: 2013
Black Europe and the African Diaspora by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780252047251Publication Date: 2023
Mapping Black Europe: Monuments, Markers, Memories by Call Number: eBook; also available in printISBN: 9783837654134Publication Date: 2023
Afro-Sweden: Becoming Black in a Color-blind Country by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781452967684Publication Date: 2022
Blacks in the Dutch world : The Evolution of Racial Imagery in a Modern Society by Call Number: TC Wilson Library General Collection DJ92.B53 B57 1993ISBN: 9780253214331Publication Date: 1993
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