ISBN:
9781785333330
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9780857459534
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9780857459541
Language:
English
Pages:
x, 260 Seiten
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Illustrationen
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23 cm
Edition:
First paperback edition
Series Statement:
Studies in German history 15
Series Statement:
Studies in German history
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Germany and the black diaspora
DDC:
303.4824306
Keywords:
Schwarze
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BMBF-Statusseminar
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Black people History
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Black people Ethnic identity
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History
;
African Americans History
;
African Americans Relations with Germans
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History
;
African Americans
;
African Americans ; Relations with Germans
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Black people
;
Black people ; Ethnic identity
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Race relations
;
Kulturkontakt
;
History
;
Germany Race relations
;
History
;
Germany
Abstract:
Saints and slaves, Moors and Hessians. The Calenburg altarpiece : Black African christians in Renaissance Germany / Paul H.D. Kaplan -- The Black diaspora in Europe in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, with special reference to German-speaking areas / Kate Lowe -- Ambiguous duty : Black servants at German ancien régime courts / Anne Kuhlmann -- Real and imagined Africans in baroque court divertissements / Rashid-S. Pegah -- From American slaves to Hessian subjects : silenced Black narratives of the American revolution / Maria I. Diedrich -- From enlightenment to empire. The German reception of African American writers in the long nineteenth century / Heike Paul -- "On the brain of the Negro" : race, abolitionism, and Friedrich Tiedemann's scientific discourse on the African diaspora / Jeannette Eileen Jones -- Liberating sojourns? African American travelers in mid-nineteenth-century Germany / Mischa Honeck -- Global proletarians, uncle Toms, and native savages : popular German race science in the Emancipation era / Bradley Narancy -- We shall make farmers of them yet : Tuskegee's uplift ideology in German Togoland / Kendahl L. Radcliffe -- Education and migration : Cameroonian schoolchildren and apprentices in Germany, 1884-1914 / Robbie Aitken -- Africans in Europe : new perspectives / Dirk Hoerder.
Abstract:
"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
Note:
Originally published in hardcover: 2013
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-248) and index
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