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Germany and the Black Diaspora

von Mischa Honeck, Martin Klimke, Anne Kuhlmann-Smirnov

History Sociology Cultural Studies

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9780857459534

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Erschienen

01.01.1970

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Germany Black Diaspora German History African History Colonial History Intercultural Encounters Racial Theories Black Saints Medieval Art Black Hessians American Revolutionary War Cameroonian Education African American Agriculturalists Togoland Cultural Perceptions Race Relations Historical Literature European Colonization Nineteenth Century World War I Historical Continuities Historical Ruptures Academic Audience Scholarly Work Historical Analysis Cultural History Social History

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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.