Tag: Germany

  • Why Germany’s latest Nazi satire ‘Heil’ isn’t brave enough Deutsche Welle 2015-07-16 Sarah Hofmann An unlikely spokesman Neo-Nazi boss Sven (left, played by Beno Fürmann) celebrates a victory. He kidnapped Afro-German author Sebastian Klein (played by Jerry Hoffmann), who suffers from amnesia after behind hit on the head. Klein starts mimicking everything the neo-Nazis say.…

  • Racist Hysteria to Pragmatic Rapprochement? The German Debate about Rhenish ‘Occupation Children’, 1920–30 Contemporary European History Volume 22, Issue 2, May 2013 pages 155-180 DOI: 10.1017/S0960777313000039 Julia Roos, Associate Professor of History Indiana University, Bloomington This essay revisits 1920s German debates over the illegitimate children of the Rhineland occupation to examine hitherto neglected fluctuations in…

  • How to Unlearn History | Ella Achola | TEDxCoventGardenWomen TEDx Talks 2015-07-21 Ella Achola, Founder Ain’t I A Woman Collective From awkward school encounters to groan-inducingly offensive questions, Ella finds herself at the intersections of identity, and shares her big idea for bringing ourselves into the stories we tell. Ella Achola is a writer and…

  • “In Lines of Descent,” Kwame Anthony Appiah traces the twin lineages of Du Bois’ American experience and German apprenticeship, showing how they shaped the great African-American scholar’s ideas of race and social identity.

  • Homestory Deutschland: Black Biographies in Historical and Present Times Canisius College, Buffalo, New York 2015-03-04 Buffalo, NY – Canisius College will exhibit “Homestory Deutschland: Black Biographies in Historical and Present Times” from Tuesday, March 24 – Sunday, April 12. The exhibit will be on display in Alumni Hall, located between the Andrew L. Bouwhuis Library…

  • Lives of Afro-German men and women are focus of Canisius College exhibit The Buffalo News Buffalo, New York 2015-03-12 An exhibit that provides a look at the lives of Afro-German men and women living in Germany during the past three centuries will open March 24 in Alumni Hall, between the Andrew L. Bouwhuis Library and…

  • Rhineland Children Arriving In The Future: Stories of Home and Exile 2015-01-20 Asoka Esuruoso & Philipp Khabo Koepsell Germany’s brief colonial period saw an increase in the community of Africans and Afro Germans in Germany. Many Black Germans were also descendants of Black Askari troops recruited from Germany’s former colonies. Thousands of these men had…

  • Black Germans and the Holocaust International Slavery Museum Liverpool, England, United Kingdom 2015-01-14 The International Slavery Museum will be marking Holocaust Memorial Day on Tuesday 27 January with a special free guest lecture by Professor Eve Rosenhaft from the University of Liverpool, who will be talking about the experiences of the Black German community during…

  • Reflections on Black German History Arriving In The Future: Black German Stories of Home and Exile 2015-01-10 Asoka Esuruoso & Philipp Khabo Koepsell “Unsere Geschichte nicht erst nach 1945 begann. Vor unseren Augen stand unsere Vergangenhait, die eng verknupft ist mit der kolonialien und nationalsozialistischen deutschen Geschichte.” Our history did not begin after 1945. Before…

  • Ming Wong’s Imitations Transit: A Journal of Travel, Migration, and Multiculturalism in the German-speaking World Volume 9, Number 2 (2014) Special Topic: Contemporary Remediations of Race and Ethnicity in German Visual Cultures 32 pages Barbara Mennel, Associate Professor of English University of Florida The article “Ming Wong’s Imitations” analyzes the installation Life of Imitation, created…