“[O] ne of our main goals for this volume was to showcase the insightful scholarship of another generation of scholars who are pushing the fields of Black German and Black Austrian Studies in new directions”(21). The two editors, Tiffany Florvil and Vanessa Plumly, do just that in Rethinking Black German Studies. Contributors to the volume explore a wide palette of previously ignored or scantily researched topics in Germanic studies. As the book includes aspects of Black lives in both Germany and Austria and expands the field beyond rethinking it, its title could have easily read