{"id":7068,"date":"2010-05-11T03:45:02","date_gmt":"2010-05-11T03:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=7068"},"modified":"2011-02-25T15:36:17","modified_gmt":"2011-02-25T15:36:17","slug":"%e2%80%98if-you-cant-pronounce-my-name-you-can-just-call-me-pride%e2%80%99-afro-german-activism-gender-and-hip-hop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=7068","title":{"rendered":"\u2018If You Can’t Pronounce My Name, You Can Just Call Me Pride\u2019: Afro-German Activism, Gender and Hip Hop"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2018If You Can’t Pronounce My Name, You Can Just Call Me Pride\u2019: Afro-German Activism, Gender and Hip Hop<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Gender & History<\/a>
\nVolume 15 Issue 3<\/a> (November 2003)
\nPages 460 – 486
\nDOI: 10.1111\/j.0953-5233.2003.00316.x<\/a><\/p>\n

Fatima El-Tayeb<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of African-American Literature and Culture
\nUniversity of California, San Diego<\/em><\/p>\n

The history of the black German minority, now estimated at around 500,000, goes back several centuries.<\/strong> It is only since the twentieth century, however, that Germans of African descent<\/a> have been perceived as a group. This did not lead to their recognition as a national minority, but rather, from the 1910s to the 1960s, they were defined as a collective threat to Germany’s racial and cultural ‘purity’. When a sense of identity emerged among Afro-Germans<\/a> themselves in the 1980s, the majority population continued to deny the existence of ethnic diversity within German society. At the turn of the twenty-first century, Afro-Germans seemingly suddenly appeared as a new, ‘hip’ minority. This appearance was largely focused on the immense public success of the Hip Hop collective ‘Brothers Keepers’, conceived as an anti-racist, explicitly Afro-German intervention into German debates around national identity and racist violence. This article explains the success of ‘Brothers Keepers’ by contextualising it within the tradition of two decades of Afro-German feminist activism and the transnational Hip Hop movement<\/a> of European youth of colour.<\/p>\n

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

\u2018If You Can’t Pronounce My Name, You Can Just Call Me Pride\u2019: Afro-German Activism, Gender and Hip Hop Gender & History Volume 15 Issue 3 (November 2003) Pages 460 – 486 DOI: 10.1111\/j.0953-5233.2003.00316.x Fatima El-Tayeb, Assistant Professor of African-American Literature and Culture University of California, San Diego The history of the black German minority, now […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,28,8],"tags":[3228,2956,2957,2948,1392],"class_list":["post-7068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-europe","category-media-archive","tag-afro-germans","tag-fatima-el-tayeb","tag-gender-history","tag-germany","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7068","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=7068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}