Category: Europe

  • Showing Her Colors: An Afro-German Writes the Blues in Black and White Callaloo Volume 26, Number 2, Spring 2003 pages 306-319 DOI: 10.1353/cal.2003.0045 Karein Kirsten Goertz, Lecturer of Germanic Language and Literature University of Michigan This essay undertakes a detailed analysis of May Ayim’s Blues in Schwarz Weiss and examines her development of what she…

  • First Annual Convention Report: Black German Cultural Society NJ Black German Cultural Society of New Jersey German Historical Institute Washington, D.C. 2011-08-19 through 2011-08-21 14 pages By Priscilla Layne and S. Marina Jones The First Annual Black German Cultural Society, NJ Convention was an important opportunity for scholars, students, and individuals personally affected by Afrogerman…

  • Half-Blood Blues Picador (an imprint of Macmillan) 2011-09-03 304 pages 8.5 X 5.5 X 0.9 in Cloth ISBN:9780887627415 Paperback ISBN: ISBN: 9781250012708 Esi Edugyan Winner of the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize Paris, 1940.  A brilliant jazz musician, Hiero, is arrested by the Nazis and never heard from again.  He is twenty years old.  He is a…

  • African Diasporas: Afro-German Literature in the Context of the African American Experience Lit Verlag 2006 144 pages ISBN: 3-8258-9612-9 Aija Poikane-Daumke This book investigates the development of Afro-German literature in the context of the African American experience and shows the decisive role of literature for the emergence of the Afro-German Movement. Various Afro-German literary and…

  • Redrawing the Color Line: Gender and the Social Construction of Race in Pre-Revolutionary Haiti Journal of Caribbean History Volume 30, Numbers 1 & 2 (1996) pages 28-50 John D. Garrigus, Associate Professor of History University of Texas, Austin This article examines the social and political construction of race in French colonial Saint-Domingue. After 1763 white…

  • Hybrid Zones: Representations of Race in Late Nineteenth-Century French Visual Culture University of Kansas April 2011 358 pages Publication Number: AAT 3456911 ISBN: 9781124667348 Rozanne McGrew Stringer In this study, I examine images of the black female and black male body and the female Spanish Gypsy by four artists—Edgar Degas, Édouard Manet, Frédéric Bazille, and…

  • Freedom Papers: An Atlantic Odyssey in the Age of Emancipation Harvard University Press February 2012 288 pages 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches 17 halftones, 1 line illustration, 1 map Hardcover ISBN 9780674047747 Rebecca J. Scott, Charles Gibson Distinguished University Professor of History and Professor of Law University of Michigan Jean M. Hébrard, Historian and Visiting Professor…

  • There are Italians with black skin Africa News 2010-05-28 Stephen Ogongo Interview with Sabrina Jacobucci, President of Association of Afro-Italian Children To be black and Italian at the same time is a new reality the Italian society is still struggling to accept.  Adoption and increase in the number of mixed marriages between Italians and Africans…

  • The threat of ‘woolly-haired grandchildren’: Race, the colonial family and German nationalism The History of the Family Volume 14, Issue 4 (2009-10-26) The Domestic Frontier: European Colonialism, Nationalism and the Family Pages 356-368 DOI: 10.1016/j.hisfam.2009.08.002 Matthew P. Fitzpatrick, Senior Lecturer in International History Flinders University, Australia The German colonial world was marked by an ostensibly…

  • Interracial Marriage in the Last Portuguese Colonial Empire Journal of Portuguese History Volume 5, Number 1, Summer 2007 23 pages ISSN: 1645-6432 Maria Eugénia Mata, Associate Professor of Economic History and History of Economics University of Lisbon The paper presents both the institutional background and the government philosophy regarding equality and non-prejudice within all of…