{"id":7852,"date":"2010-07-05T04:39:05","date_gmt":"2010-07-05T04:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=7852"},"modified":"2021-08-30T18:45:49","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T18:45:49","slug":"not-so-plain-as-black-and-white-afro-german-culture-history-1890-2000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=7852","title":{"rendered":"Not So Plain as Black and White: Afro-German Culture & History, 1890-2000"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not So Plain as Black and White: Afro-German Culture & History, 1890-2000<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

University of Rochester Press<\/a>
\n2005-03-01
\n266 pages
\nPages: 266
\nSize: 9 x 6
\nHardback 13 Digit ISBN: 9781580461832
\nImprint: University of Rochester Press<\/p>\n

Edited by<\/p>\n

Patricia M. Maz\u00f3n<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of History
\nState University of New York, Buffalo<\/em><\/p>\n

Reinhild Steingr\u00f6ver<\/a>,<\/strong> Assistant Professor of German
\nUniversity of Rochester, Eastman School of Music<\/em><\/p>\n

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Since the Middle Ages<\/a>, Africans have lived in Germany<\/a> as slaves and scholars, guest workers and refugees. After Germany became a unified nation in 1871, it acquired several African colonies but lost them after World War I<\/a>. Children born of German mothers and African fathers during the French occupation of Germany were persecuted by the Nazis<\/a>. After World War II<\/a>, many children were born to African American GIs<\/a> stationed in Germany and German mothers. Today there are 500,000 Afro-Germans<\/a> in Germany out of a population of 80 million. Nevertheless, German society still sees them as \u201cforeigners,\u201d assuming they are either African or African American but never German.<\/p>\n

In recent years, the subject of Afro-Germans has captured the interest of scholars across the humanities for several reasons. Looking at Afro-Germans allows us to see another dimension of the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century ideas of race that led to the Holocaust<\/a>. Furthermore, the experience of Afro-Germans provides insight into contemporary Germany’s transformation, willing or not, into a multicultural society. The volume breaks new ground not only by addressing the topic of Afro-Germans but also by combining scholars from many disciplines.<\/p>\n

Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Dangerous Liaisons: Race, Nation, and German Identity<\/li>\n
  2. The First Besatzungskinder<\/a>: Afro-German Children, Colonial Childrearing Practices, and Racial Policy in German Southwest Africa, 1890-1914<\/li>\n
  3. Converging Specters of an Other Within: Race and Gender in Pre- 1945 Afro-German History<\/li>\n
  4. Louis Brody and the Black Presence in German Film Before 1945<\/li>\n
  5. Narrating “Race” in 1950s’ West Germany: The Phenomenon of the Toxi Films<\/li>\n
  6. Will Everything Be Fine? Anti-Racist Practice in Recent German Cinema<\/li>\n
  7. Writing Diasporic Identity: Afro-German Literature since 1985<\/li>\n
  8. The Souls of Black Volk: Contradiction? Oxymoron?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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