Category: Europe

  • Mo Asumang: Confronting racism face-to-face BBC News Magazine 2014-05-13 Mo Asumang is the daughter of a black Ghanaian father and a white German mother. As a well-known TV presenter in Germany she became the target of racist extreme right-wingers and neo-Nazis, who based their attacks on Asumang’s “non-Aryan” background. So she decided to look into…

  • Technologies of Belonging: The Absent Presence of Race in Europe Science Technology Human Values Volume 39, Number 4 (July 2014) pages 459-467 DOI: 10.1177/0162243914531149 Amade M’charek, Associate Professor of Anthropology University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands Katharina Schramm, Lecturer Institute for Social Anthropology Martin Luther Universität, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany David Skinner, Research Convener; Reader in Sociology Anglia…

  • Culture File – Race and the Irish Screen RTÉ Lyric FM 2014-05-15 Fin Keegan, Host Zélie Asava, Lecturer and Programme Director of Video and Film Dundalk Institute of Technology, Louth, Ireland What can the Irish horror movie tell us about attitudes to race? And can a mixed race guard [police] in an Irish crime series,…

  • Audre Lorde: The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992 by Dagmar Schultz (review) African Studies Review Volume 57, Number 1, April 2014 pages 237-238 DOI: 10.1353/arw.2014.0038 Patricia-Pia Célérier, Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York Audre Lorde: The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992 is a 79-minute documentary in English and German,…

  • An Afropean Journey Africa is a Country 2014-03-21 Johny Pitts A few years ago, on a snowy January evening, a stranger mistook me for someone he had seen the previous week, aboard an evening train heading to Frankfurt. The moment lasted seconds, but our brief encounter would serve as a catalyst for what became a…

  • Interview with Carole Brennan from Mixed Race Irish Een Vlaming in Ierland/ A Fleming in Ireland 2014-03-28 Roos Demol It has been quite a week in Ireland, with the new problems for Mr Shatter, the news that over 2000 phone calls were taped in Garda offices around the country, which could bring a lot of…

  • Image Matters: Archive, Photography, and the Making of the African Diaspora in Europe by Tina M. Campt (review) Callaloo Volume 37, Number 1, Winter 2014 pages 169-171 DOI: 10.1353/cal.2014.0006 Nicosia Shakes Brown University Campt, Tina M., Image Matters: Archive, Photography, and the African Diaspora in Europe (Durham: Duke University Press, 2012) In Image Matters, Tina…

  • Christine Buckley helped shift cultural axis on child abuse The Irish Times 2014-03-12 Patsy McGarry, Religious Affairs Correspondent From Broadstreet.ie Those who insist that history is about movements not individuals might reflect on the achievements of Christine Buckley. Her story is history as driven by one person. She was an original, a pioneer in exposing…

  • Black History Month in Germany German Mission to the United States 2014-02-14 In the United States February has been celebrated as Black History Month for the past four decades or so, with schools, media, institutions and celebrities taking the opportunity to highlight the accomplishments and historical experiences of African Americans. In recent years, Germany has…

  • Breath of Freedom The Smithsonian Channel Premieres Monday, 2014-02-17 20:00 EST Narrated by Cuba Gooding Jr. They fought to liberate Germany from Nazi rule, as racism reached unfathomable levels. Their fight would continue back home on American soil. This is the story of the one-million-plus African Americans who fought in World War II. Discover their…