LEADER 04513nam 22006252 450 001 9911008436903321 005 20170606162109.0 010 $a1-58046-334-7 010 $a1-282-08056-3 010 $a9786612080562 010 $a1-58046-678-8 024 7 $a10.1515/9781580466783 035 $a(CKB)1000000000722676 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000212361 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12057929 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000212361 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10136817 035 $a(PQKB)11157786 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781580466783 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4737201 035 $a(OCoLC)946346693 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_89800 035 $a(DE-B1597)675971 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781580466783 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000722676 100 $a20161111d2005|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aNot so plain as Black and White $eAfro-German culture and history, 1890-2000 /$fedited by Patricia Mazo?n and Reinhild Steingro?ver with a foreword by Russell Berman 210 1$aRochester, NY :$cUniversity of Rochester Press,$d2005. 215 $a1 online resource (xvii, 247 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aRochester studies in African history and the diaspora 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jun 2017). 311 08$a1-58046-183-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aAfro-Germans in historical perspective -- Dangerous liaisons: race, nation, and German identity / Fatima El-Tayeb -- The first Besatzungskinder: Afro-German children, colonial childrearing practices, and racial policy in German southwest Africa, 1890-1914 / Krista Molly O'Donnell -- Converging specters of an other within: race and gender in pre-1945 Afro-German history / Tina M. Campt -- Cultural representations and self-representations of Afro-Germans -- Louis Brody and the Black presence in German film before 1945 / Tobias Nagl -- Narrating "race" in 1950s' West Germany: the phenomenon of the Toxi films / Heide Fehrenbach -- Will everything be fine? Anti-racist practice in recent German cinema / Randall Halle -- Writing diasporic identity: Afro-German literature since 1985 / Leroy Hopkins -- The souls of Black Volk: Contradiction? Oxymoron? / Anne Adams. 330 $aSince the Middle Ages, Africans have lived in Germany 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. Children born of German mothers and African fathers during the French occupation of Germany were persecuted by the Nazis. After World War II, many children were born to African American GIs stationed in Germany and German mothers. Today there are 500,000 Afro-Germans in Germany out of a population of 80 million. Nevertheless, German society still sees them as "foreigners," assuming they are either African or African American but never German.

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. 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.

Patricia Mazon is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
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