In the 1980s and 1990s, Black German women began to play significant roles in challenging
the discrimination in their own nation and abroad. Their grassroots organizing, writings, and …

This paper offers tools to rethink global critical insights on “race” in the contemporary
structural transformation of European identity politics from the perspectives of postcolonial …

In this article, I provide the historical context for the reception of Audre Lorde's
biomythography Zami's by Black women across the African diaspora as a backdrop for my …

The first investigation of Afro-German theater my dissertation,“The Drama of Race,” argues
that Afro-German theater empowers as Black actors take ownership of a German stage, a …

SUMMARY The popularity of Timur Vermes's Er ist wieder da (2012), its widespread
translation, and the film version (2015) all raised critical hackles in Germany, provoking …

SchwarzRund's Biskaya (2017) is an “Afroqueer” novel that follows the travails of Tue, a
queer Black German woman whose life is marked by the quotidian struggles of queer Black …

Problematic and romanticized, debated and contested, of the past and urgently current–
there are countless ways of describing the concept of Heimat, all of which have their validity …

When May ayim died on august 9, 1996, the world lost a dynamic person who created a
cultural, political, and intellectual foundation for the modern Black German movement of the …

Black Madonna statues and images can be found and are revered worldwide. They are an
art historical object of curiosity and embody religion, politics, and the quest for social justice …

For many people 'Black'and 'German'are two mutually exclusive concepts. Illuminating the
history of Black Germans during two watershed moments in history, this paper elucidates the …