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Genre/Form: | History |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Patricia M Mazón; Reinhild Steingröver |
ISBN: | 1580461832 9781580461832 |
OCLC Number: | 56753187 |
Description: | xvii, 247 pages : illustrations, 1 map ; 25 cm |
Contents: | 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 -- 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. |
Series Title: | Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora, v. 19. |
Responsibility: | edited by Patricia Mazón and Reinhild Steingröver with a foreword by Russell Berman. |
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[T]his anthology advances our understanding of exclusionary practices and the history of institutionalized biological racism in modern Germany. It also pays tribute to the growing corpus of complex and challenging texts and films produced by Afro-Germans and to the degree to which the community has become networked and vocal in significant ways. -- Nina Berman * RESEARCH IN AFRICAN LITERATURES, Winter 2008 * Not So Plain as Black and White will contribute in significant ways to the emerging field of Afro-German Studies and will be important as well for German Studies, Africana Studies, and Cultural Studies in general. -- Sara Friedrichsmeyer, professor of German, University of Cincinnati Read more...

