{"id":35131,"date":"2013-12-20T19:00:58","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T19:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=35131"},"modified":"2013-12-20T20:04:03","modified_gmt":"2013-12-20T20:04:03","slug":"from-hair-care-to-racism-afro-germans-share-experiences-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=35131","title":{"rendered":"From hair care to racism, Afro-Germans share experiences online"},"content":{"rendered":"

From hair care to racism, Afro-Germans share experiences online<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

DW: Deutsche Welle<\/a>
\nBerlin\/Bonn, Germany
\n2013-12-18<\/p>\n

Lori Herber<\/a><\/strong>, Cologne<\/p>\n

Two 20-somethings in Germany have launched krauselocke.de<\/a>, the country’s first online portal with an Afro-German perspective. For many in the community, it’s more than hair advice – it’s a roadmap to identity<\/em><\/p>\n

After growing up with few role models who looked like them, Afro-Germans Barbara Mabanza (left) and Esther Donkor (right) didn’t want the same thing to happen to girls in Germany’s next generation. So they created a website to bring together a community.<\/p>\n

Twelve-year-old Magdalena Inou is one of those girls the two had in mind. Magdalena has her Austrian mother’s quick smile and her Cameroonian father’s kinky hair. Tonight those tresses are pulled into a ponytail. She sits beside her mother, Sylvia and is quick to point out the obvious.<\/p>\n

“My hair is different from the hair of my mother,” she explains, matter-of-factly. Her mother, Sylvia Inou adds. “I have German hair. Austrian hair. Straight hair.”<\/p>\n

They’ve traveled more than eight hours from Vienna to Cologne to meet more than 50 fellow members of the online community called “Krauselocke,” or “kinky curls.” They want to get tips on how to care for Magdalena’s hair and, most importantly, to show Magdalena she’s not alone…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From hair care to racism, Afro-Germans share experiences online DW: Deutsche Welle Berlin\/Bonn, Germany 2013-12-18 Lori Herber, Cologne Two 20-somethings in Germany have launched krauselocke.de, the country’s first online portal with an Afro-German perspective. For many in the community, it’s more than hair advice – it’s a roadmap to identity After growing up with few […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,12,28,8,25],"tags":[3228,16601,9817,12678,16599,16602,2948,16598,16600],"class_list":["post-35131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-europe","category-media-archive","category-women","tag-afro-germans","tag-barbara-mabanza","tag-deutsche-welle","tag-dw","tag-dw-deutsche-welle","tag-esther-donkor","tag-germany","tag-krauselocke-de","tag-lori-herber"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35131","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=35131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}