Category: Europe

  • The Creole Elite and the Rise of Angolan Proto-Nationalism, 1870–1920 Cambria Press 2008-09-08 340 pages ISBN: 9781604975291 Jacopo Corrado This book is about Angolan literature and culture. It investigates a segment of Angolan history and literature, with which even Portuguese-speaking readers are generally not familiar. Its main purpose is to define the features and the…

  • ‘Going out of stock’: Mulattoes and Levantines in Italian literature and cinema of the Fascist period University of Connecticut 2008 255 pages Publication Number: AAT 3329116 ISBN: 9780549826118 Rosetta Giuliani Caponetto A Dissertation Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut My dissertation examines,…

  • The Born Identity Arise Magazine Issue 12 2011-09-28 Sarah Bentley Photography by Liz Johnson-Artur Thirty-six year-old Egor Belov has just told a childhood anecdote about scrubbing his face until it drew blood. He’d been playing in the snow and wanted pink cheeks like his friends. His dark complexion was never going to turn his desired…

  • For many of the now-adult children of white German women and African-American GIs, adopted by families in the United States after World War II, the search for the truth has been difficult. Online communities are helping.

  • German science and black racism—roots of the Nazi Holocaust The FASEB Journal (The Journal of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology) Volume 22, Number 2 (2008) pages 332-337 DOI: 10.1096/fj.08-0202ufm François Haas, Associate Professor Department of Rehabilitation Medicine New York University The Nazi’s cornerstone precept of “racial hygiene” gave birth to their policy…

  • Geteilte Geschichte: The Black Experience in Germany and the U.S. The German Historical Institute 1607 New Hampshire Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. Thursday, 2011-08-19, 18:00-20:00 EDT (Local Time) RSVP (acceptances only) by August 12, 2011 Telephone: 202-387-3355, FAX: 202-387-6437 E-Mail: events@ghi-dc.org Noah Sow Noah Sow is an acclaimed journalist, musician, and producer. In 2001, she founded…

  • “Roots Germania” A Personal Search for Identity (Film Screening and Panel Discussion) The German Historical Institute 1607 New Hampshire Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. Thursday, 2011-08-18, 18:00-20:00 EDT (Local Time) RSVP (acceptances only) by August 12, 2011 Telephone: 202-387-3355, FAX: 202-387-6437 E-Mail: events@ghi-dc.org The Grimme award nominated documentary “Roots Germania” was directed by Mo Asumang, the…

  • Persistent Borderland: Freedom and Citizenship in Territorial Florida Texas A&M University August 2007 295 pages Philip Matthew Smith A Dissertation by Philip Matthew Smith Submitted to the Office of Graduate Studies of Texas A&M University in partial fulfillment of requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in History Florida’s Spanish borderland was the result…

  • A Breath of Freedom: The Civil Rights Struggle, African American GIs, and Germany Palgrave Macmillan September 2010 282 pages 6 x 9 1/4 inches, Includes: 50 pgs illus Paperback ISBN: 978-0-230-10473-0, ISBN10: 0-230-10473-8 Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-10472-3, ISBN10: 0-230-10472-X Maria Höhn, Professor of History Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York Martin Klimke, Research Fellow German Historical Institute,…

  • GIs and Fräuleins: The German-American Encounter in 1950s West Germany University of North Carolina Press December 2001 360 pages 6.125 x 9.25, 13 photos, 1 map, notes, bibl., index Paper ISBN  978-0-8078-5375-7 Maria Höhn, Professor of History Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York With the outbreak of the Korean War, the poor, rural West German state…