Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- You were either Black or white. To claim whiteness as a mixed child was to deny and hide Blackness. Our families understood that the world we were growing into would seek to denigrate this part of us and we would need a community that was made up, always and already, of all shades of Blackness.
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Tag: Afro-Germans
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“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…
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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,…
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The ever-engaging work of the controversial activist/writer, May Ayim, covers a fascinating range of themes: biography, politics, love as well as the absurdities of everyday life. Her unique ability to passionately transform diverse subject matters into poetic language is revealed in this important collection of translated pieces.
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First Annual Black German Cultural Society Inc. Convention German Historical Institute 1607 New Hampshire Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. 2011-08-19 through 2011-08-21 The Black German Cultural Society, Inc. is excited to announce its First Annual Convention to be held from August 19 to 21, 2011, at the German Historical Institute (GHI) in Washington, DC. With the…
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“Germany’s ‘Brown Babies’ Must Be Helped! Will You?”: U.S. Adoption Plans for Afro-German Children, 1950-1955 Callaloo Volume 26, Number 2 (Spring 2003) pages 342-362 DOI: 10.1353/cal.2003.0052 E-ISSN: 1080-6512 Print ISSN: 0161-2492 Yara-Colette Lemke Muniz de Faria This essay explores the debate that arose around the adoption of Black German children by African American parents and…
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Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany HarperCollins 480 pages 2001 ISBN: 9780060959616 Hans J. Massaquoi (1926-2013) This is a story of the unexpected. In Destined to Witness, Hans Massaquoi has crafted a beautifully rendered memoir—an astonishing true tale of how he came of age as a black child in Nazi Germany. The son…
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The Subject in Black and White: Afro-German Identity Formation in Ika Hügel-Marshall’s Autobiography Daheim unterwegs: Ein deutsches Leben Women in German Yearbook: Feminist Studies in German Literature & Culture Volume 21 (2005) pages 62-84 DOI: 10.1353/wgy.2005.0012 E-ISSN: 1940-512X;Print ISSN: 1058-7446 Deborah Janson, Associate Professor of Foreign Languages West Virginia University Black Germans still experience prejudice…
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Race after Hitler: Black Occupation Children in Postwar Germany and America Princeton University Press 2005 288 pages 6 x 9, 17 halftones, 1 line illustration, 2 maps ISBN13: 978-0-691-13379-9 Heide Fehrenbach, Presidential Research Professor of History Northern Illinois University When American victors entered Germany in the spring of 1945, they came armed not only with…