Black(ness) in German African Studies

• Autore: Lämmert Stephanie
• Pubblicazione: Basel/Berlin/Boston : , : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, , 2025; ©2025
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (226 pages)
• Disciplina: 325.343096
• Soggetto topico: Black people - Germany; Personnes noires - Allemagne; Black people
• Soggetto geografico: Germany Colonies Africa; Germany
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Black Germany and the African Diaspora -- Transnational Feminism and the Black German Narrative -- Toward an Inclusive Academic Future -- Contents -- Glossary and List of Abbreviations Used -- Author Contribution -- Introduction: Black(ness) in German African Studies -- The Disconnect in German African Studies and German Afro-diasporic Knowledges -- The Fetishization of the Local and its Impact on how we do African Studies -- Organization of the Volume -- Part I: African Studies from Different Geographic and Epistemic Locations -- Chapter 1 The Black Roots of African Studies -- Africa, Black Studies, and German Academia -- Chapter 2 Insights from Sudan and Tunisia on African Studies in Germany -- Introduction -- Between Roots and Lived Realities: African Studies in Academia -- The Sudanese Experience: A Microcosm of Broader Identity Challenges -- Tunisia: The Road to Europe -- Tunisia's First Master's Degree in African Studies: A Landmark Event -- The Revolution and the African Question -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3 Thinking Through African Studies and Blackness from a Nigerian Perspective -- German Experience -- What does Blackness Mean to Me? -- The Nigerian Gaze and Issues in Black Women's Historiography -- Conclusion -- Contribution 4 Thoughts on African Studies: Conversations at ASWAD and ASAA Conferences -- Part II: Universalisms from Black Perspectives -- Chapter 5 Breaking Boundaries, Building Bridges: The Academic Journey of Professor Fatou Sow in Global Feminist Thought -- University of Dakar: Between Auxiliary and Antagonist -- "Attention to the Particular" -- Language Barriers and Cross-Fertilization -- African Realities as lived by African Societies in General and Women in Particular -- Institutionalizing Feminist Theories and Practices -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6 Differentiated Grievances. ; Part III: Anti-Black Structures in the Academic Landscape and the Archive Question -- Chapter 7 Imagining the (Extra)ordinary: History Without Archives in Saidiya Hartman's Critical Fabulation -- Archives and Archival Violence -- Futuring and Fabulation -- Alternative Ways of Knowing -- Chapter 8 "Political Opinion" or Anti-Black Racism? Cases from German Academia -- The Distinction between Political Opinion and Teaching Commitment -- Appropriation of Black Knowledge -- Conclusion -- Part IV: Diaspora Identities -- Chapter 9 "What Do I See?" An Exploration of the Shades of Afro-European Cultural Identities -- Introduction -- "What do I see?" An Exploration of the Different Cultural Identities -- The First Group of Interviews: Being Afro-European -- The Second Group of Interviews: The Ethio-European Cultural Identities -- Listening to the Picture -- Conclusion -- Chapter 10 African Diaspora Women and the Question of Belonging -- Introduction: Being Hypervisible, yet Feeling Invisible -- The Neutral Journalist: An Ideal that Can Never Be Achieved -- Belonging - A Two-Sided Question -- What did My Ancestors do to Survive the Transatlantic Enslavement? -- Am I an Afropolitan or do I belong to Blackademia? -- A Hypervisible, yet Invisible Blackademian -- Postscript -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: By zooming in on African Studies in Germany, this book deals with questions around knowledge production on Africa and its diaspora; the workings of epistemic and geographic locations in "knowing" Africa; anti-Black structures in German academia; the making and sustaining of a canon and the role of the university as a gate-keeper of certain.
• Titolo autorizzato: Black(ness) in German African Studies
• ISBN: 3-11-144688-3; 3-11-144672-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9911069532603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II