Category: Europe

  • Family Portrait in Black and White: Documentary by Julia Ivanova Interfilm Productions Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 2011 Institutional Use: Double DVD (includes 85 and 52 minute versions) Private Use: 85 minute DVD Julia Ivanova, Director Olga Nenya has 27 children. Four of them, now adults, are her biological children; the other 23 are adopted or…

  • Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe Walters Art Museum 600 N. Charles Street Baltimore, Maryland 2012-10-14 through 2013-01-21 Open Wednesday-Sunday, 10:00-17:00 ET (Local Time) Telephone: 410-547-9000 Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe, an unprecedented exhibition, explores the world of Renaissance art in Europe to bring to life the hidden African presence in its…

  • Jazz, Race Collide With War In 1930s Europe Tell Me More National Public Radio 2012-03-26 Jacki Lyden, Host The novel Half Blood Blues explores an often overlooked slice of history: black jazz musicians in Germany on the eve of World War II. The book moves from 1992 to 1939, from Baltimore to Berlin to Paris.…

  • “The Ineffaceable Curse of Cain”: Race, Miscegenation, and the Victorian Staging of Irishness Victorian Literature and Culture Volume 29, Number 2 (September 2001) pages 383–396 Scott Boltwood, Associate Professor of English Emory & Henry College, Emory, Virginia THROUGHOUT THE NINETEENTH CENTURY both the English popular and scientific communities increasingly argued for a distinct racial difference…

  • Blackface, Whiteness and the Power of Definition in German Contemporary Theatre The International Research Center “Interweaving Performance Cultures” invites Bühnenwatch Studio 1 Kunstquartier Bethanien Mariannenplatz 2 / 10 997 Berlin 2012-10-16, 11:00-16:30 CEST (Local Time) With presentations by Sharon Otoo, Sandrine Micossé-Aikins, Dr. Daniele Daude, Dr. Azadeh Sharifi and Julia Lemmle Moderated by Oliver Kontny…

  • Afro-German Literature and Films Gerlind Institute for Cultural Studies, Oakland, California 4 two-hour classes Marion Gerlind, Founder and Executive Director This seminar will familiarize students with the history of a minority population in Germany who has gained significant visibility in German media since the 1980s. Having confronted racist stereotyping and media (mis)representations, Black Germans have…

  • Invisible Woman: Growing up Black in Germany University of California, Berkeley Center for Race & Gender Multicultural Community Center, Hearst Field Annex-D 2012-09-25, 12:40-14:00 PDT (Local Time) A reading by Ika Hügel-Marshall Ika Hügel-Marshall was the child of an African-American serviceman and a white German woman. Born and raised in post-Hitler Germany, she tells about her…

  • Review of Mazón, Patricia M.; Steingröver, Reinhild, eds., Not So Plain as Black and White: Afro-German Culture and History, 1890-2000 H-German, H-Net Reviews June 2009 Lynn Kutch, Assistant Professor of German Kutztown University of Pennsylvania Patricia M. Mazón, Reinhild Steingröver, eds. Not So Plain as Black and White: Afro-German Culture and History, 1890-2000. Rochester: University…

  • Debates over who belongs in Europe and who doesn’t increasingly speak the language of mixing, but how are the figures commonly described as ‘mixed’ actually embodied? “The Biopolitics of Mixing” invites us to reckon with the spectres of pathologization past and present, placing the celebration of mixing beside moral panics over terrorism and trafficking and…

  • French MP Harlem Désir set to become first black man to lead a major European political party The Independent London, England 2012-09-12 John Lichfield The French Euro MP Harlem Désir appears certain next month to become the first black man to lead a major European political party. After weeks of wrangling, Mr Désir, 52, was…