{"id":12741,"date":"2013-03-25T02:03:53","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T02:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=12741"},"modified":"2017-01-29T20:56:31","modified_gmt":"2017-01-29T20:56:31","slug":"afro-germans-and-the-problems-of-cultural-location","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=12741","title":{"rendered":"Afro-Germans and the Problems of Cultural Location"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asante.net\/articles\/17\/afro-germans-and-the-problems-of-cultural-location\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Afro-Germans and the Problems of Cultural Location<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asante.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Molefi Kete Asante<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of African American Studies<br \/>\n<em>Temple University<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The African German Experience: Critical Essays<br \/>\n<\/em>Greenwood Publishing<br \/>\n1997<\/p>\n<p>edited by <strong>Carol Aisha Blackshire-Belay<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leitmotif\" target=\"_blank\">leitmotif<\/a> of the German society in regards to African people has a lot to do with the way Germans approach racial difference. Thus, the German society, in many ways, similar to that of other European nations views Africans as other and lesser. <strong>This is a particularly troubling problem for children of mixed heritage since in the German construction of social reality they cannot be German by blood and therefore are African, the other.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is claimed in this essay that the Afro-Germans, those born of African fathers and German mothers or German fathers and African mothers, a less frequent combination, have a peculiar problem of cultural location which is unlike the problems of other residents of Germany. There is a relatively sizable population of immigrants from Turkey, Greece, Italy, and the former Yugoslavia who reside In Germany. But while Turks, Italians, and Greeks may be defined as not-German they are still seen in the light of their own nationality, but to which nation is the Afro-German connected? This is at once an existential and a locational question for the Afro-German, encompassing being and physical place&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire chapter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asante.net\/articles\/17\/afro-germans-and-the-problems-of-cultural-location\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afro-Germans and the Problems of Cultural Location Molefi Kete Asante, Professor of African American Studies Temple University The African German Experience: Critical Essays Greenwood Publishing 1997 edited by Carol Aisha Blackshire-Belay The leitmotif of the German society in regards to African people has a lot to do with the way Germans approach racial difference. Thus, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1933,28,125,8,394],"tags":[3228,5723,5722,5724,2948,3160,5721,5720],"class_list":["post-12741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-bookchapter","category-europe","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","tag-afro-germans","tag-carol-a-blackshire-belay","tag-carol-aisha-blackshire-belay","tag-carol-blackshire-belay","tag-germany","tag-molefi-asante","tag-molefi-k-asante","tag-molefi-kete-asante"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45191,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12741\/revisions\/45191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}