Tag: Germany

  • A mixed-race German confronts white supremacists face-to-face, including the Klan Public Radio International 2014-09-15 Leo Hornak, Producer Susie Blair, Producer Most people would probably run for shelter if confronted with death threats. But Mo Asumang had a different impulse: “I don’t want to hide — it’s not my nature.” Asumang — who is half-German and…

  • Race and Racisms: A Critical Approach Oxford University Press 2014-08-01 528 pages 7-1/2 x 9-1/4 inches Paperback ISBN: 9780199920013 Tanya Maria Golash-Boza, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Merced Race and Racisms: A Critical Approach engages students in critical questions related to racial dynamics in the U.S. and around the world. Written in accessible,…

  • I received more than a few raised eyebrows after describing the recent trip my wife and I took to attend the Black German Cultural Society of New Jersey’s Second Annual Convention at Barnard College in New York. If you are tempted to believe that being both Black and German is an oxymoron; think again.

  • “No, I meant where are you really from?” on being black and German Media Diversified 2014-08-15 Ella Achola School of Oriental and African Studies, London “No, I meant where are you really from?” is a micro-aggression I am all too familiar with when my simple answer of “Berlin” is perceived as insufficient to a query…

  • Meeting with Dagmar Schultz and Ria Cheatom FemGeniuses: Where feminism meets genius! 2014-05-29 Kaimara Herron It is only the first week of our stay in Berlin, but it feels like an eternity since my plane took-off from O’Hare. But this is certainly not a complaint. We have had the opportunity to do such amazing things…

  • Mo Asumang: Confronting racism face-to-face BBC News Magazine 2014-05-13 Mo Asumang is the daughter of a black Ghanaian father and a white German mother. As a well-known TV presenter in Germany she became the target of racist extreme right-wingers and neo-Nazis, who based their attacks on Asumang’s “non-Aryan” background. So she decided to look into…

  • Breath of Freedom The Smithsonian Channel Premieres Monday, 2014-02-17 20:00 EST Narrated by Cuba Gooding Jr. They fought to liberate Germany from Nazi rule, as racism reached unfathomable levels. Their fight would continue back home on American soil. This is the story of the one-million-plus African Americans who fought in World War II. Discover their…

  • This groundbreaking history traces the development of Germany’s black community, from its origins in colonial Africa to its decimation by the Nazis during World War II.

  • The Propaganda War in the Rhineland: Weimar Germany, Race and Occupation after World War I I. B. Tauris 2013-02-28 352 pages Hardback ISBN: 9781780763460 216 x 134mm Peter Collar Piecing together a fractured European continent after World War I, the Versailles Peace Treaty stipulated the long term occupation of the Rhineland by Allied troops. This…

  • Editorial January 2014: On Reading Two Recent Memoirs by Afro-Germans The Collegium for African American Research (CAAR) January 2014 Gundolf Graml, Associate Professor of German and Director of German Studies Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Georgia Two recent memoirs by German authors with an African connection emphasize that German history cannot be written without including the…