Title: Weisse Blicke--schwarze Körper : Afrikaner im Spiegel westlicher Alltagskultur : Bilder aus der Sammlung Peter Weiss /
Authors: Zeller, Joachim, 1958-
Publisher: Sutton Verlag,
Year: 2010
Subjects: Weiss, Peter Art collections.; Africans Colonization Germany.; Postcards Africa History; Postcards Africa History; Africans Germany Social conditions; Africans Germany Social conditions; Africa Colonization Germany.
Abstract: "The collection and presentation of images was very much an act of appropriation of Africa by Europe. Late 19th and early 20th Century it was mainly the picture postcard, the people gave in the Western world an idea of the 'dark continent'. The millions of cards were circulating on the central mass media of visual popular culture and helped to push through the achievements of imperial politics and legitimize. The historian Joachim Zeller has chosen for this volume, approximately 400 images, mostly postcards from the collection of Peter Weiss. They show the Africans how he saw the whites, or wanted to see as exotic, savage, colonial subject or joke. The photographs not only document the entire spectrum of the colonialism of the images, but also thematize the resistances, the opposing views of Africans - insisting on their own sense - 'look back' could. The author reads the picture post card 'against the grain' and provides the representations of competence in the historical and ideological context. He shows how Africa (partners) by the colonial view of the "white man" exoticized, typed, trivialized, objectified, for advertising or propaganda were clamped. This volume helps to break patterns and racial perception is questioning the traditional Sun from the colonial era white look."--Publisher's website.
Contents: Afrika!-Afrika? -- Koloiale Räume -- Weiß-Machen-die typisierung de Eigenen -- Die Kulter de Gewalt-Krieg mit Bildern? -- Fremdbilder-Imperiale Blicke auf den, Anderen" -- (Hohn- ) Gelächter-Wer lacht heir über wen? -- Die (un)mögliche Liebe-Von der Gefahr des Schwarz-Werdens -- Grennzziehungen-Verwandlungen -- Mediale Kolonisierung-In der Metropole -- Infantilisierung-Die heile Welt de Kinderstube? -- Heimholung de kolonialen Fremde-Menschenzoos -- Wildgewordene werbeschlachten-Afrika(ner) als ware -- Medialer Rassenkamplf-Kriegshetze und die, Schwarze Schmach"-Kempagne -- Nostalgische Blicke-Heimweh nach Afrika -- Glasmour der schwarzen differenz-Die Negrophilie de Zwanzigerjahre -- Color line-Bilderwelten aus den USA -- Afro-Deutsche -- Schwarze Gegenwelten -- Widerständigkeiten-Antikoloniale und Antirassistische images.