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

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Book
Language
English
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Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2011.
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1 online resource (267 p.)

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Germans and African Americans, unlike other works on African Americans in Europe, examines the relationship between African Americans and one country, Germany, in great depth.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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.
ISBN
  • 1-282-96084-9
  • 9786612960840
  • 1-60473-785-9
OCLC
695996369
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