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Subject(s)

• African Americans—Relations with Germans—History [Browse]
• African Americans—Germany—History [Browse]
• Black people—Race identity—Germany—History [Browse]
• Black people—Germany—History [Browse]
• Germany—Race relations—History [Browse]

Related name

• Honeck, Mischa, 1976- [Browse]
• Klimke, Martin [Browse]
• Kuhlmann-Smirnov, Anne [Browse]

Series

• Studies in German history ; 15. [More in this series]
• Studies in German history ; ol. 15 [More in this series]

Summary note

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

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Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

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Language note

English

Contents

• Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I - Saints and Slaves, Moors and Hessians; Chapter One - The Calenberg Altarpiece: Black African Christians in Renaissance Germany; Chapter Two - The Black Diaspora in Europe in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries, with Special Reference to German-Speaking Areas; Chapter Three - Ambiguous Duty: Black Servants at German Ancien Régime Courts; Chapter Four - Real and Imagined Africans in Baroque Court Divertissements; Chapter Five - From American Slaves to Hessian Subjects: Silenced Black Narratives of the American Revolution
• Part II - From Enlightenment to EmpireChapter Six - The German Reception of African American Writers in the Long Nineteenth Century; Chapter Seven - ""On the Brain of the Negro"": Race, Abolitionism, and Friedrich Tiedemann's Scientific Discourse on the African Diaspora; Chapter Eight - Liberating Sojourns? African American Travelers in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Germany; Chapter Nine - Global Proletarians, Uncle Toms, and Native Savages: Popular German Race Science in the Emancipation Era; Chapter Ten - We Shall Make Farmers of Them Yet: Tuskegee's Uplift Ideology in German Togoland
• Chapter Eleven - Education and Migration: Cameroonian Schoolchildren and Apprentices in Germany, 1884-1914Afterword - Africans in Europe: New Perspectives; Selected Bibliography; Contributors; Index

ISBN

• 9781785333330
• 178533333X
• 9780857459541
• 0857459546

OCLC

859536987

Doi

• 10.1515/9780857459541

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