Germany And The Black Diaspora Points Of Contact 12501914
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9780857459534
Description: The rich history of encounters prior to World War I between people from German-speaking parts of Europe and people of African descent has gone largely unnoticed in the historical literature-not least because Germany became a nation and engaged in colonization much later than other European nations. This volume presents intersections of Black and German history over eight centuries while mapping continuities and ruptures in Germans' perceptions of Blacks. Juxtaposing these intersections demonstrates that negative German perceptions of Blackness proceeded from nineteenth-century racial theori.