Category: Europe

  • Black German: An Afro-German Life in the Twentieth Century Liverpool University Press 2017-03-01 216 Pages 210 x 147 mm 29 B&W illustrations Paperback ISBN: 9781781383117 Theodor Michael Translated by: Eve Rosenhaft, Professor of German Historical Studies University of Liverpool This is the first English translation of an important document in the history of the black…

  • Nazism triumphed in Germany during the high era of Jim Crow laws in the United States. Did the American regime of racial oppression in any way inspire the Nazis? The unsettling answer is yes. In “Hitler’s American Model,” James Whitman presents a detailed investigation of the American impact on the notorious Nuremberg Laws, the centerpiece…

  • Rosemary Adaser was one of many mixed-race children considered illegitimate who was brought up in institutions run by the Catholic church in Ireland between the 1950s and 1970s. She tells of the abuse and racist treatment she suffered, and returns to her school in Kilkenny for the first time in 40 years and attempts to…

  • Historically, mixed couples and people of mixed descent have been seen as a problem, in popular culture as well as in academic literature. ‘Ethnically’ and ‘racially’ mixed relationships were described as dominated by power imbalances and as devoid of love. This perspective was brought to bear upon relationships and marriages in colonial times and in…

  • Black and French: ‘Mariannes Noires’ film explores the intersections of identity AfroPunk 2017-02-16 T. McLendon The African diaspora reaches to every corner of the earth and in the Western world Black identity is often formed within the context of white supremacy, white nationalism, and white majorities. For Black people learning, growing and living in France,…

  • First Look: Amandla Stenberg, George MacKay in Amma Asante’s ‘Where Hands Touch’ (EXCLUSIVE) Variety 2017-02-08 Leo Barraclough, Senior International Correspondent Courtesy of Tantrum Films/Pinewood Pictures Variety has been given exclusive access to the first-look image from Amma Asante’s “Where Hands Touch,” which stars Amandla Stenberg (“The Hunger Games”) and George MacKay (“Captain Fantastic”) in a…

  • Auschwitz to Rwanda: The link between science, colonialism and genocide Mail & Guardian Africa Johannesburg, South Africa 2017-02-01 Heike Becker Sixty years later, the recurrent connections of science and genocide still demonstrate the dark underbelly of Western modernity in Africa, Europe, and the world. (Reuters/Finbarr O’Reilly) Significant links connect racial science in colonial southern Africa…

  • “(Un)Making Race and Ethnicity: A Reader,” edited by Michael O. Emerson, Jenifer L. Bratter, and Sergio Chávez, helps instructors and students connect with primary texts in ways that are informative and interesting, leading to engaging discussions and interactions.

  • Ruth Negga: ‘Stories about race and identity pique my interest… I have always felt like a fish out of water’ The Belfast Telegraph 2016-12-31 Patricia Danaher Starring role: Ruth Negga’s career is going from strength to strength Nominated for a Golden Globe, tipped for an Oscar and on the cover of Vogue, Ruth Negga is…

  • Miss France ‘whitened’ for Paris Match The Times of London 2016-12-23 Charles Bremner, Europe Editor A row over racism has tainted this year’s Miss France contest after the winner was pictured in a magazine with apparently lightened features and her hair straightened. Alicia Aylies, an 18-year-old student who earlier won the Miss French Guiana contest, was…