Mixed Race Studies
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Tag: Germany
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To discuss the perspective of race in contemporary German literature, it is worthwhile to focus on those writers associated with the programmatic efforts of the Afro-Germans, a heterogeneous, biracial group of individuals usually of German and African or African American heritage and born since 1945. In 1984 the late feminist author and scholar Audre Lorde…
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A five-year-old girl suddenly appears on the doorstep of a well-to-do Hamburg family. The members of the multi-generational, white household react differently to the arrival of Toxi, who is black, the daughter of an African-American G.I. and a white German woman who has died.
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“Race Under Reconstruction in German Cinema” investigates postwar racial formations via a pivotal West German film by one of the most popular and prolific directors of the era. The release of Robert Stemmle’s Toxi (1952) coincided with the enrolment in West German schools of the first five hundred Afro-German children fathered by African-American occupation soldiers.
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Black German Cultural Society of New Jersey 2012 Annual Convention: Call for Papers Black German Cultural Society of New Jersey 2012-01-31 Building on the success of the inaugural 2011 conference, the second annual convention of the Black German Cultural Society of New Jersey (BGCSNJ) will be held at Barnard College in New York City on…
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Audre Lorde – The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992 Third World Newsreel 2012 84 minutes Germany English/German with English Subtitles Dagmar Schultz 2012 marks the 20th anniversary of Audre Lorde’s passing, the acclaimed Black lesbian feminist poet and activist. Throughout the 70s and 80s, Lorde’s incisive writings and speeches defined and inspired the women of color,…
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Hope in My Heart: The May Ayim Story Third World Newsreel 1997 28 minutes Germany German with English Subtitles Maria Binder A moving documentary about the life and untimely death of Ghanaian-German poet, academic and political personality May Ayim. Ayim was one of the founders of the Black German Movement, and her research on the…
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Nationalism, Racism and Propaganda in Early Weimar Germany: Contradictions in the Campaign against the ‘Black Horror on the Rhine’ German History Volume 30, Issue 1 (March, 2012) pages 45-74 DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghr124 Julia Roos, Associate Professor of History Indiana University, Bloomington During the early 1920s, an average of 25,000 colonial soldiers from North Africa, Senegal and…
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In recent decades Germany has struggled with the reality of being a multicultural society. The influx of political and economic refugees from Asia and Africa as well as growing friction between resident aliens euphemistically termed “Gastarbeiter” (guest workers) and the German population have created a political atmosphere conducive to neofascist and nationalistic elements expounding xenophobic…
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Recasting Race after World War II: Germans and African Americans in American-Occupied Germany University Press of Colorado 2007 320 9 b&w photos Cloth ISBN: 978-0-87081-869-1 Timothy L. Schroer, Associate Professor of History University of West Georgia Historian Timothy L. Schroer’s Recasting Race after World War II explores the renegotiation of race by Germans and African…