04367nam 2200733 450 991082242230332120221010215653.01-78533-333-X0-85745-954-610.1515/9780857459541(CKB)2550000001125696(EBL)1429464(OCoLC)859536987(SSID)ssj0001001886(PQKBManifestationID)12446740(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001001886(PQKBWorkID)10968755(PQKB)10046809(MiAaPQ)EBC1429464(Au-PeEL)EBL1429464(CaPaEBR)ebr10773525(CaONFJC)MIL526336(DE-B1597)636824(DE-B1597)9780857459541(EXLCZ)99255000000112569620120928d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrGermany and the Black diaspora points of contact, 1250-1914 /editors, Mischa Honeck, Martin Klimke, Anne Kuhlmann-SmirnovNew York :Berghahn Books,2013.1 online resource (x, 260 pages) illustrations, mapsStudies in German history ;ol. 15Description based upon print version of record.0-85745-953-8 1-299-95085-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I - Saints and Slaves, Moors and Hessians; Chapter One - The Calenberg Altarpiece: Black African Christians in Renaissance Germany; Chapter Two - The Black Diaspora in Europe in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries, with Special Reference to German-Speaking Areas; Chapter Three - Ambiguous Duty: Black Servants at German Ancien Régime Courts; Chapter Four - Real and Imagined Africans in Baroque Court Divertissements; Chapter Five - From American Slaves to Hessian Subjects: Silenced Black Narratives of the American RevolutionPart II - From Enlightenment to EmpireChapter Six - The German Reception of African American Writers in the Long Nineteenth Century; Chapter Seven - ""On the Brain of the Negro"": Race, Abolitionism, and Friedrich Tiedemann's Scientific Discourse on the African Diaspora; Chapter Eight - Liberating Sojourns? African American Travelers in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Germany; Chapter Nine - Global Proletarians, Uncle Toms, and Native Savages: Popular German Race Science in the Emancipation Era; Chapter Ten - We Shall Make Farmers of Them Yet: Tuskegee's Uplift Ideology in German TogolandChapter Eleven - Education and Migration: Cameroonian Schoolchildren and Apprentices in Germany, 1884-1914Afterword - Africans in Europe: New Perspectives; Selected Bibliography; Contributors; IndexThe rich history of encounters prior to World War I between people from German-speaking parts of Europe and people of African descent has gone largely unnoticed in the historical literature-not least because Germany became a nation and engaged in colonization much later than other European nations. This volume presents intersections of Black and German history over eight centuries while mapping continuities and ruptures in Germans' perceptions of Blacks. Juxtaposing these intersections demonstrates that negative German perceptions of Blackness proceeded from nineteenth-century racial theoriesStudies in German history ;15.African AmericansRelations with GermansHistoryAfrican AmericansGermanyHistoryBlack peopleRace identityGermanyHistoryBlack peopleGermanyHistoryGermanyRace relationsHistoryAfrican AmericansRelations with GermansHistory.African AmericansHistory.Black peopleRace identityHistory.Black peopleHistory.305.896/043Honeck Mischa1976-1655405Klimke Martin1635688Kuhlmann-Smirnov Anne1687184MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910822422303321Germany and the Black diaspora points of contact, 1250-19144060470UNINA