ISBN:
9781788746892
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (442 pages)
Series Statement:
Transnational Cultures Ser. v.2
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
943.087092/396073
Keywords:
Blacks History 20th century
;
Blacks Race identity 20th century
;
History
;
African American soldiers History 20th century
;
African Americans Relations with Germans 20th century
;
History
;
Blacks Interviews
;
Electronic books.
;
Germany Race relations 20th century
;
Germany History 1945-
Abstract:
This volume collects the voices of descendents of African American soldiers who liberated Germany from fascist rule. Black German writers here convey their experiences through life writing, interviews and literary works as well as through research essays that illuminate this almost forgotten history of US American-German relations.
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface to the English Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction (Marion Kraft) -- Part I: Black People in Germany -- Re-presentations and Re-definitions: Black People in Germany in the Past and Present (Marion Kraft) -- Part II: Life Writing: Witnessed History -- Else Lindenbeck and Leslie Littles: An African American-German Family History (Lita Littles Wimbley) -- A Long Journey Home: From a German Orphanage to the Black Bourgeoisie - and Back (Ruth E. Spencer) -- Unexpected Encounters with the Past (Roy Merz) -- Which Figure Does Not Belong? About the Impossibility of Belonging (Thomas Usleber) -- Ways Out of Isolation (Ria Cheatom) -- Black Police Officer and Activist (Mike Reichel) -- One Family, Two Continents (Jasmin Eding) -- Crossing Borders, Overcoming Boundaries (Ika Hügel-Marshall) -- Bridges (Helga Emde) -- Germany: A Springtime Tale (Eleonore Wiedenroth-Coulibaly) -- Part III: Change of Perspective -- "Because We're Embarrassed": Memory, Post-memory and Reflections on "Race" and Rejection (Tracey O. Patton) -- Stories Matter: Experiences of Black German Adoptees in the U.S. (Rosemarie Peña) -- Searching for Traces: Discontinuity and Identity in African American-German Autobiographies (Marion Kraft) -- Black Germans: Social Realities and Problems of a Neglected Minority (Bärbel Kampmann) -- Inclusion: Different Perspectives on a Principle of Human Rights (Judy Gummich) -- African Diaspora: Critical Reflections on a Concept (Marion Kraft) -- Part IV: Remembrance of Changes and Breakthroughs -- ADEFRA: How It All Began - a Conversation with Ria Cheatom, Jasmin Eding and Judy Gummich (Ika Hügel-Marshall) -- From Champion Boxer and Prison Inmate to Social Worker: A Conversation with Charly Graf (Marion Kraft) -- Part V: The Power of Language: Poems -- Changes (Helga Emde).
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