Publication
University of Massachusetts Press (2016), Edition: Illustrated, 376 pages
ISBN
9781625342317
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CONTENTS
Preface
Introduction
1. Knowledges of (Un-) Belonging: Epistemic Change as a Defining Mode for Black Women’s Activism in Germany
2. Inspirited Topography: Haunting Survivals and the Location of Experience in Black German Traditions of Knowledge and Culture
3. Self-Assertion, Intervention, and Achievement: Developments in Contemporary Black German Writing
4. After the German Invention of Race: Conceptions of Race Mixing from Kant to Fischer and Hitler
5. Counterfeit Money/Counterfeit Discourse: A Black German Trickster Tale
6. Black Voices on the “Black Horror on the Rhine”?
7. Black “Others”?: African Americans and Black Germans in the Third Reich
8. The Motion of Stillness: Diaspora, Stasis, and Black Vernacular Photography
9. My 13 Years under the Nazi Terror
10. Black Occupation Children and the Devolution of the Nazi Racial State
11. Making African Diasporic Pasts Possible: A Retrospective View of the GDR and its Black (Step-)Children
12. Blackness and its (Queer) Discontents
13. Looking Backward and Forward: Twenty Years of the Black Women’s Movement in Germany
Epilogue. Of Epistemologies and Positionalities: A Conversation, Berlin, October 21, 2014
Notes on Contributors
Index
Preface
Introduction
1. Knowledges of (Un-) Belonging: Epistemic Change as a Defining Mode for Black Women’s Activism in Germany
2. Inspirited Topography: Haunting Survivals and the Location of Experience in Black German Traditions of Knowledge and Culture
3. Self-Assertion, Intervention, and Achievement: Developments in Contemporary Black German Writing
4. After the German Invention of Race: Conceptions of Race Mixing from Kant to Fischer and Hitler
5. Counterfeit Money/Counterfeit Discourse: A Black German Trickster Tale
6. Black Voices on the “Black Horror on the Rhine”?
7. Black “Others”?: African Americans and Black Germans in the Third Reich
8. The Motion of Stillness: Diaspora, Stasis, and Black Vernacular Photography
9. My 13 Years under the Nazi Terror
10. Black Occupation Children and the Devolution of the Nazi Racial State
11. Making African Diasporic Pasts Possible: A Retrospective View of the GDR and its Black (Step-)Children
12. Blackness and its (Queer) Discontents
13. Looking Backward and Forward: Twenty Years of the Black Women’s Movement in Germany
Epilogue. Of Epistemologies and Positionalities: A Conversation, Berlin, October 21, 2014
Notes on Contributors
Index