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Germans and African Americans : two centuries of exchange / edited by Larry A. Greene and Anke Ortlepp

Published
Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2011]
Copyright Date
©2011
Physical Description
1 online resource (xxi, 244 pages) : illustrations
Additional Creators
Greene, Larry A. and Ortlepp, Anke
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Language Note
English.
Contents
Prologue : African Americans in the German Democratic Republic / Victor Grossman -- An unexpected alliance : August Willich, Peter H. Clark, and the abolitionist movement in Cincinnati / Mischa Honeck -- German immigrants and African Americans in Charleston, South Carolina, 1850-1880 / Jeffery Strickland -- Louis Douglas and the Weimar reception of Harlemania / Leroy Hopkins -- Race in the Reich : the African American press on Nazi Germany / Larry A. Greene -- Field trip into the twilight : a German Africanist discovers the Black bourgeoisie at Howard University, 1937-1939 / Berndt Ostendorf -- Love across the color line : the limits of German and American democracy, 1945-1968 / Maria Höhn -- The erotics of African American endurance, or, On the right side of history : White (West)-German public sentiment between pornotroping and civil rights solidarity / Sabine Broeck -- "Nazi Jim Crow" : Hans Jürgen Massaquoi's democratic vistas on the Black Atlantic and Afro-Germans in Ebony / Frank Mehring -- A raisin in the East : African American civil rights drama in GDR scholarship and theater practice / Astrid Haas -- Ollie Harrington : his portrait drawn on the basis of East German (GDR) secret service files / Aribert Schroeder -- Exploding Hitler and Americanizing Germany : occupying "Black" bodies and postwar desire / Damani Partridge -- Reconstructing "America" : the development of African American studies in the Federal Republic of Germany / Eva Boesenberg.
Summary
This title examines the relationship between African Americans and one country, Germany. Germans and African Americans encountered one another within the context of their national identities and group experiences. Unlike many other countries in Europe, Germany has played a variety of different and conflicting roles in the African American narrative and relationship with Europe. It is this diversity of roles that adds to the complexity of African American and German interactions and mutual perceptions over time.
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ISBN
9781604737851 (electronic bk.)
1604737859 (electronic bk.)
1282960849
9781282960848
9786612960840
6612960841
9781628468830 (ebook)
1628468831
9781604737844
1604737840
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Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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