Not so plain as Black and White
Subtitle: Afro-German culture and history, 1890-2000
By: edited by Patricia Mazón and Reinhild Steingröver ; with a foreword by Russell Berman.
Contributors: Mazón, Patricia M.; Steingröver, Reinhild.
Series: Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora -- v. 19.
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Rochester, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
Subjects: Blacks -- Germany -- History.; Blacks -- Race identity -- Germany -- History.; Germany -- Race relations.
Description: "After World War II, "brown babies" 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." "As editors Patricia Mazon and Reinhild Steingrover argue, the experience of Afro-Germans provides insight into contemporary Germany's transformation, willing or not, into a multicultural society. Furthermore, looking at Afro-Germans allows us to see another dimension of the ideas of race that shaped the twentieth century and led to the Holocaust."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-240) and index.
Table of contents: title: PART I: AFRO-GERMANS IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; title: PART I: AFRO-GERMANS IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE -- Fatima El-Tayeb; title: PART I: AFRO-GERMANS IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE -- Fatima El-Tayeb -- Krista Molly O'Donnell; title: PART I: AFRO-GERMANS IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE -- Fatima El-Tayeb -- Krista Molly O'Donnell -- Tina M. Campt -- PART II. CULTURAL REPRESENTATIONS AND SELF-REPRESENTATIONS OF AFRO-GERMANS; title: PART I: AFRO-GERMANS IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE -- Fatima El-Tayeb -- Krista Molly O'Donnell -- Tina M. Campt -- PART II. CULTURAL REPRESENTATIONS AND SELF-REPRESENTATIONS OF AFRO-GERMANS -- Tobias Nagl; title: PART I: AFRO-GERMANS IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE -- Fatima El-Tayeb -- Krista Molly O'Donnell -- Tina M. Campt -- PART II. CULTURAL REPRESENTATIONS AND SELF-REPRESENTATIONS OF AFRO-GERMANS -- Tobias Nagl -- Heide Fehrenbach; title: PART I: AFRO-GERMANS IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE -- Fatima El-Tayeb -- Krista Molly O'Donnell -- Tina M. Campt -- PART II. CULTURAL REPRESENTATIONS AND SELF-REPRESENTATIONS OF AFRO-GERMANS -- Tobias Nagl -- Heide Fehrenbach -- Randall Halle; title: PART I: AFRO-GERMANS IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE -- Fatima El-Tayeb -- Krista Molly O'Donnell -- Tina M. Campt -- PART II. CULTURAL REPRESENTATIONS AND SELF-REPRESENTATIONS OF AFRO-GERMANS -- Tobias Nagl -- Heide Fehrenbach -- Randall Halle -- Leroy Hopkins; title: PART I: AFRO-GERMANS IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE-- Fatima El-Tayeb-- Krista Molly O'Donnell-- Tina M. Campt-- PART II. CULTURAL REPRESENTATIONS AND SELF-REPRESENTATIONS OF AFRO-GERMANS-- Tobias Nagl-- Heide Fehrenbach-- Randall Halle-- Leroy Hopkins-- Anne Adams.