Germany and the Black diaspora : points of contact, 1250-1914

The Resource Germany and the Black diaspora : points of contact, 1250-1914

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Germany and the Black diaspora : points of contact, 1250-1914

Title remainder

points of contact, 1250-1914

Statement of responsibility

edited by Mischa Honeck, Martin Klimke, and Anne Kuhlmann

Language

eng

Summary

"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

Cataloging source

N$T

Dewey number

305.896/043

Illustrations

illustrations
maps

Index

index present

LC call number

DD78.B55

LC item number

G48 2013eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries
bibliography

Series statement

Studies in German history

Series volume

volume 15

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