Tag: Angelica Fenner

  • Black German culture, history highlighted at Amherst-sponsored conference Amherst College News Amherst College Amherst, Massachusetts 2013-08-16 Peter Rooney, Director of Public Affairs As more African-Americans are realizing they have German roots, and as Germans expand the notion of what it means to be German, a new academic discipline dedicated to examining the Black German experience…

  • Black German Heritage and Research Association Annual Convention 2013 Black German Heritage and Research Association 2013-01-29 The third annual convention of the Black German Heritage and Research Association (formerly the Black German Cultural Society NJ) will be held on August 8-11, 2013, at Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts. This year’s convention will focus on Black…

  • “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.