ISBN:
9781107421400
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1107417473
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1139649574
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9781107417472
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9781139649575
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
1 online resource (384 pages)
Ausgabe:
1. publ.
Paralleltitel:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.896043
Schlagwort(e):
Blacks -- Germany -- History
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Blacks -- Germany -- Social conditions
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Cameroonians -- Germany -- History
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Africans -- Germany -- History
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Germany -- Race relations -- History
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Germany -- Emigration and immigration
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Germany -- Colonies -- Africa -- Emigration and immigration
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Blacks Social conditions
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Cameroonians History
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Africans History
;
Blacks History
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Africans ; Germany ; History
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Blacks ; Germany ; History
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Blacks ; Germany ; Social conditions
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Cameroonians ; Germany ; History
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Germany ; Colonies ; Africa ; Emigration and immigration
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Germany ; Emigration and immigration
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Germany ; Race relations ; History
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Electronic books
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Cameroon Emigration and immigration
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Germany Race relations
;
History
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Germany Emigration and immigration
;
Germany Colonies
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Emigration and immigration
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Deutschland
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Schwarze
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Soziale Situation
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Geschichte 1884-1960
Kurzfassung:
A groundbreaking account of the development of Germany's first African community, which offers fascinating perspectives on transnational German history.
Kurzfassung:
Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Maps -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 The first generation: from presence to community -- Education and migration -- Alfred Bell -- Schoolchildren and apprentices -- Returning migrants and travel restrictions -- Mission-sponsored travel -- The Baptist Mission -- The Basel Mission -- Catholic missions -- Völkerschauen and the Berlin Colonial Exhibition 1896 -- Abandoned servants and new travel restrictions -- The beginnings of community -- 2 Should I stay and can I go? Status and mobility in the institutional net -- Staying I: subjects and citizens -- Staying II: documentation regimes -- Being in two places at the same time: 'protected persons' -- Leaving: repatriation -- 3 Settling down: marriage and family -- Meeting and courtship -- Delaying marriage: institutional obstacles and the cost of statelessness -- Staying married: challenges -- The 'white wife problem' -- Popular racism -- Internal tensions -- 4 Surviving in Germany: work, welfare and community -- Centres of settlement -- The African Welfare Association -- The search for work -- Language assistants -- Colonial businessmen -- Economic dependency and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Eingeborenenkunde -- Performing blackness -- Crime as a survival strategy -- 5 Problem men and exemplary women? Gender, class and 'race' -- Problem men? Misreading sex -- Positive self-images: dandy, soldier, prince, paterfamilias -- Exemplary women? -- The Bilé women -- Katharina Atangana -- Maria Mandessi Bell -- 6 Practising diaspora - politics 1918-1933 -- A politics of petition -- Organising in the metropole -- Practising diaspora: Joseph Bilé and the dilemmas of black internationalism -- Back to Africa? -- 7 Under the shadow of National Socialism -- Troubled times -- Policies of exclusion: challenges to civil status.
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
The first generation : from presence to communityShould I stay and can I go? : status and mobility in the institutional net -- Settling down : marriage and family -- Surviving in Germany : work, welfare and community -- Problem men and exemplary women? : gender, class and "race" -- Practising diaspora -- politics 1918-1933 -- Under the shadow of national socialism -- Refuge France?.
Anmerkung:
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