Rethinking Black German Studies: Approaches, Interventions and Histories

ISBN-13: 9783034322256 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 330 str.

Tiffany Nicole Florvil

Opis

This volume assesses the current field of Black German Studies by exploring how periods of recent German history inform the present and future of the interdisciplinary field. The experiences of present generations of Black Germans, the construction and reimagining of race, and the opportunities for counter-narratives are considered.

Spis treści

CONTENTS: Silke Hackenesch: «Hergestellt unter ausschließlicher Verwendung von Kakaobohnen deutscher Kolonien»: On Representations of Chocolate Consumption as a Colonial Endeavor - Nancy P. Nenno: Here to Stay: Black Austrian Studies - Meghan O'Dea: Lucia Engombe's and Stefanie-Lahya Aukongo's Autobiographical Accounts of Solidaritatspolitik and Life in the GDR as Namibian Children - Kimberly Alecia Singletary Everyday Matters: Haunting and the Black Diasporic Experience - Kevina King: Black, People of Color and Migrant Lives Should Matter: Racial Profiling, Police Brutality and Whiteness in Germany - Kira Thurman: «Africa in European Evening Attire»: Defining African American Spirituals and Western Art Music in Central Europe, 1870s-1930s - Vanessa D. Plumly: Re-Fashioning Postwar German Masculinity Through Hip-Hop: The Man(l)y BlackWhite Identities of Samy Deluxe - Jamele Watkins: Performing Oppression and Empowerment in real life: Deutschland.

O autorze

Tiffany N. Florvil is Assistant Professor of 20th-Century European Women's and Gender History at the University of New Mexico.

Vanessa D. Plumly is currently a lecturer in German in the Department of Languages, Literatures & Cultures at the State University of New York at New Paltz.