{"id":15426,"date":"2011-08-06T22:58:12","date_gmt":"2011-08-06T22:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=15426"},"modified":"2011-09-01T21:19:51","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T21:19:51","slug":"%e2%80%9croots-germania%e2%80%9d-a-personal-search-for-identity-film-screening-and-panel-discussion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=15426","title":{"rendered":"\u201cRoots Germania\u201d A Personal Search for Identity (Film Screening and Panel Discussion)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/app.e2ma.net\/app\/view:CampaignPublic\/id:1403485.7156447646\/rid:ad8ebe44406d81c6a172f16170665cdd\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cRoots Germania\u201d A Personal Search for Identity (Film Screening and Panel Discussion)<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghi-dc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">The German Historical Institute<\/a><br \/>\n1607 New Hampshire Avenue, NW<br \/>\nWashington, D.C.<br \/>\nThursday, 2011-08-18, 18:00-20:00 EDT (Local Time)<\/p>\n<p>RSVP (acceptances only) <strong>by August 12, 2011<\/strong><br \/>\nTelephone: 202-387-3355, FAX: 202-387-6437<br \/>\nE-Mail: <a href=\"mailto:events@ghi-dc.org\" target=\"_blank\">events@ghi-dc.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.roots-germania.com\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mo-asumang-management.com\/uploads\/4\/4\/4\/9\/4449361\/5997194.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Adolf_Grimme_Award\" target=\"_blank\">The Grimme award<\/a> nominated documentary \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.roots-germania.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Roots Germania<\/a>\u201d was directed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mo-asumang-management.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mo Asumang<\/a>, the daughter of a German and Ghanaian. She decided to search for her own roots and identity, after she received a death threat by the neo-Nazi band White Aryan Rebels, who sing in one song: \u201cThis bullet is for you, Mo Asumang.\u201d Her search leads her through <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Germany\" target=\"_blank\">Germany<\/a> and then to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ghana\" target=\"_blank\">Ghana<\/a>, where she speaks with family and friends, but she also engages with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/National_Democratic_Party_of_Germany\" target=\"_blank\">NPD<\/a> party representatives and racist groups to ask questions many would not dare to ask.<\/p>\n<p><em>In cooperation with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackgermans.us\" target=\"_blank\">Black German Cultural Society, NJ<\/a> (A New Jersey nonprofit organization) and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fesdc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Friedrich Ebert Foundation<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For more information, click <a href=\"https:\/\/app.e2ma.net\/app\/view:CampaignPublic\/id:1403485.7156447646\/rid:ad8ebe44406d81c6a172f16170665cdd\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cRoots Germania\u201d A Personal Search for Identity (Film Screening and Panel Discussion) The German Historical Institute 1607 New Hampshire Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. Thursday, 2011-08-18, 18:00-20:00 EDT (Local Time) RSVP (acceptances only) by August 12, 2011 Telephone: 202-387-3355, FAX: 202-387-6437 E-Mail: events@ghi-dc.org The Grimme award nominated documentary \u201cRoots Germania\u201d was directed by Mo Asumang, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[395,28,125,13,8,20,842,25],"tags":[3228,7001,7138,7137,7136,2948,2049,2048],"class_list":["post-15426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiography","category-europe","category-identitydevelopment","category-liveevents","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-videos","category-women","tag-afro-germans","tag-black-german-cultural-society","tag-friedrich-ebert-foundation","tag-friedrich-ebert-stiftung","tag-german-historical-institute","tag-germany","tag-mo-asumang","tag-roots-germania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15426","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=15426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}