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Germany and the black diaspora : points of contact, 1250-1914

Honeck, Mischa, 1976- editor, Klimke, Martin, editor, Kuhlmann-Smirnov, Anne, editor

Overview

\"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 theories, and that earlier constructions of 'race' were far more differentiated. The contributors present a wide range of Black-German encounters, from representations of Black saints in religious medieval art to Black Hessians fighting in the American Revolutionary War, from Cameroonian children being educated in Germany to African American agriculturalists in Germany's protectorate, Togoland. Each chapter probes individual and collective responses to these intercultural points of contact\"--Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Subject: Blacks Germany History. / Blacks Germany Ethnic identity History. / African Americans Germany History. / African Americans Relations with Germans History. / Germany Race relations History.
• ISBN: 178533333X, 9781785333330, 9780857459541, 0857459546

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
DD78.B55 G48 2016	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE