{"id":8817,"date":"2010-09-08T05:13:17","date_gmt":"2010-09-08T05:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=8817"},"modified":"2010-09-08T05:13:17","modified_gmt":"2010-09-08T05:13:17","slug":"germanys-context-for-biracial-individuals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=8817","title":{"rendered":"Germany&#8217;s Context for Biracial Individuals"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Germany\" target=\"_blank\">Germany&#8217;s<\/a> history has established a unique context for biracial individuals. For one, foreigners that look different have a hard time being accepted as German citizens. While the most prominent political activists of the Afro-German movement were women, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Afro-Germans\" target=\"_blank\">Afro-German<\/a> men chose the venue of music to express their struggle for identity and acceptance. Their contribution to the Afro-German movement of the early 1990s emphasized German citizenship and a demand to be recognized as Germans (El-Tayeb, 2003). Afro-Germans do not enjoy the advantages of \u201cuncontested national belonging that come with being white\u201d (El-Tayeb, 2003, pg. 479). The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hip_hop_music\" target=\"_blank\">Hip-Hop<\/a> group <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brothers_Keepers\" target=\"_blank\">Brother\u2019s Keepers<\/a> addressed this issue with their song \u201cFremd im Eigenen Land\u201d (Stranger in your own country) (El-Tayeb, 2003). African Americans living in the United States do not typically struggle with this issue. Nationality of Americans is not defined by racial make up, but in national allegiance (Asante, 2005). As a consequence, Afro-Germans have a problem with \u201ccultural location\u201d: The dilemma they face because they are \u201cborn in Germany, are educated in Germany, and view themselves as German yet in the minds of their fellow citizens they are not truly German because they do not have pure German ancestry\u201d (Asante, 2005)&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"ms__id28\">Hubbard, Rebecca R. \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=8359\" target=\"_blank\">Afro-German Biracial Identity Development.<\/a>\u201d PhD dissertation, Virginia Commonwealth University, 2010.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Germany&#8217;s history has established a unique context for biracial individuals. For one, foreigners that look different have a hard time being accepted as German citizens. While the most prominent political activists of the Afro-German movement were women, Afro-German men chose the venue of music to express their struggle for identity and acceptance. Their contribution to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,125,394],"tags":[3228,2948],"class_list":["post-8817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","category-identitydevelopment","category-socialscience","tag-afro-germans","tag-germany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8817","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=8817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}