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Presenting a portrait of engaged, activist lives in the 1930s, From Scottsboro to Munich follows a global network of individuals and organizations that posed challenges to the racism and colonialism of the era. Susan Pennybacker positions race at the center of the British, imperial, and transatlantic political culture of the 1930s--from Jim Crow, to imperial London, to the events leading to the Munich Crisis--offering a provocative new understanding of the conflicts, politics, and solidarities of the years leading to World War II.

In keeping with the tenets of socialist internationalism, the political culture of the German Democratic Republic strongly emphasized solidarity with the non-white world: children sent telegrams to Angela Davis in prison, workers made contributions from their wages to relief efforts in Vietnam and Angola, and the deaths of Patrice Lumumba, Ho Chi Minh, and Martin Luther King, Jr. inspired public memorials. Despite their prominence, however, scholars have rarely examined such displays in detail. Through a series of illuminating historical investigations, this volume deploys archival research, ethnography, and a variety of other interdisciplinary tools to explore the rhetoric and reality of East German internationalism.

Using previously classified documents and original interviews,The Other Allianceexamines the channels of cooperation between American and West German student movements throughout the 1960s and early 1970s, and the reactions these relationships provoked from the U.S. government. Revising the standard narratives of American and West German social mobilization, Martin Klimke demonstrates the strong transnational connections between New Left groups on both sides of the Atlantic. Klimke shows that the cold war partnership of the American and German governments was mirrored by a coalition of rebelling counterelites, whose common political origins and opposition to the Vietnam War played a vital role in generating dissent in the United States and Europe. American protest techniques such as the \"sit-in\" or \"teach-in\" became crucial components of the main organization driving student activism in West Germany--the German Socialist Student League--and motivated American and German student activists to construct networks against global imperialism. Klimke traces the impact that Black Power and Germany's unresolved National Socialist past had on the German student movement; he investigates how U.S. government agencies, such as the State Department's Interagency Youth Committee, advised American policymakers on confrontations with student unrest abroad; and he highlights the challenges student protesters posed to cold war alliances. Exploring the catalysts of cross-pollination between student protest movements on two continents,The Other Allianceis a pioneering work of transnational history.

It's hard to imagine an issue or image more riveting than Black Germans during the Third Reich. Yet accounts of their lives are virtually nonexistent, despite the fact that they lived through a regime dedicated to racial purity. Tina M. Campt's Other Germans tells the story of this largely forgotten group of individuals, with important distinctions from other accounts. Most strikingly, Campt centers her arguments on race, rather than anti-Semitism. She also provides an oral history as background for her study, interviewing two Black German subjects for her book. In the end the author comes face to face with an inevitable question: Is there a relationship between the history of Black Germans and those of other black communities? The answers to Campt's questions make Other Germans essential reading in the emerging study of what it means to be black and German in the context of a society that looked at anyone with non-German blood as racially impure at best.

A revival of anti-Semitism has been seen in Eastern European countries as a result of the fall of communism. In the US, anti-Semites have linked up with German and French counterparts to create Holocaust denial.

Appiah's brief but wide-ranging intellectual history derives from his Du Bois Lectures delivered at Harvard University in 2010, as well his expansive reading in Africana Studies and his own two books specific to this topic: The formative German years thus highlight what Appiah argues are the principal themes of Du Bois' conceptual projects regarding \"Culture and Cosmopolitanism\": his lyric evocations of black history and identity as touchstones for race pride and civil rights activism, as well as his thinking beyond \"blood and belonging\" toward the expansive ideals of citizenship in the world and human rights. Currently, he is co-editor of the book series \"The African American Intellectual Heritage\" published by the University of Notre Dame Press.

The twelve chapters in this volume about free and unfree labour in Asia and Europe examine labour relations in nineteenth-century India; English, American, German, and French labour law models; the Japanese factory law of 1911; Islam and the abolition of slavery; employment conditions in the silk industries of Japan and Lyons; discipline on the job at a seventeenth-century Japanese mercantile house; an early twentieth-century international network of Hindu merchants; the French nineteenth-century livret d'ouvrier; domestic service in seventeenth-century China; serfdom in Russia; and forced labour in turn-of-the-century India. In this book about American railroad unions in the 1920s, Professor Huibregtse, after summarizing the history of the railroad industry and its unions before and during World War I, sets out to explain how efforts by the Plumb Plan League and the Railroad Labor Executive Association brought about the Railroad Labor Act, its amendments, and the Railroad Retirement Act, laws that became models for the National Labor Relations Act and the Social Security Act. Drawing on the memories of Phillis Wheatly and Crispus Attucks, two black Americans associated with Boston's Revolutionary history, as well as on representations of black men at the Battle of Bunker Hill, in this study (based on a dissertation, Harvard University, 2007) Professor Minardi examines the relationship between memory and social change, in particular how commemorative practices and historical arguments about the American Revolution influenced anti-slavery politics in Massachusetts during the period between the Revolution and the Civil War. According to the author, Landauer's anarchist and Jewish identities influenced his approach to this last theme.

Leroy Hopkins charts the ambiguous German responses to the brilliant African American performer Louis W. Douglas, whose work in radio, musical reviews, and film transformed him into an iconic figure in the Weimar Republic from 1925 to 1931. In bringing \"Harlemania\" to Weimar, Douglas both reinforced German and white American racist caricatures of blacks and served \"as an agent of conciliation between nations\" (67). The rise of the Third Reich and Germany as a racist totalitarian state, [Larry A. Greene] explains in his essay, led African Americans to draw a parallel between the Nuremberg Laws and the de jure segregation of the Jim Crow South. America's entry into World War II, Greene observes, \"heightened the already existing contradictions between America's democratic rhetoric and the reality of America's segregated society,\" a \"contradiction that initiated the modern African American civil rights movement led by an African American press . . .\" (70). In his fascinating analysis of Julius Lips, the German Africanist, one-time professor at Howard University and later rector of Leipzig University, Berndt Ostendorf brands Lips \"a consummate trickster who never missed an opportunity for self-promotion\" (91), an \"opportunist endowed with a robust sense of narcissism\" (96). Ostendorf untangles Lips's checkered professional life as an ethnologist on both sides of the Atlantic and, most significantly, assesses his controversial two-year tenure at Howard, which Lips described to Franz Boas as an \"anthropological field trip\" (88). Scrutinizing his African American colleagues closely, Lips denounced the black bourgeoisie as victims of the twin pathologies of racism and capitalism, bemoaning their failure to retain the alleged virtues of \"primitive\" African culture. Several of the essays in Greene and [Anke Ortlepp]'s anthology analyze contrasting images of African Americans and Germans in the late twentieth century. Sabine Broeck, for instance, identifies a strain of glorification \"for the icons of black articulation\" among postwar Germans (127), while Frank Mehring, in his assessment of the Afro-German and later African American Hans Jürgen Massaquoi's autobiographical writings, illuminates \"the blurry contact zones between racism in democratic and fascist societies\" (158). In her study of the image of Africans in the GDR, Astrid Haas argues that East German scholars generally perceived black American drama \"in a similarly differentiated manner as their Western colleagues operating under much less restrictive political conditions\" (180).