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  • Titel: Germany and the Black Diaspora : Points of Contact, 1250-1914
  • Enthält: Frontmatter
    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 EMPIRE
    Chapter 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 Scientifi c 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, 1884–1914
    Afterword AFRICANS IN EUROPE New Perspectives
    SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
    Contributors
    Index
  • Beteiligte: Aitken, Robbie [MitwirkendeR]; Diedrich, Maria I. [MitwirkendeR]; Hoerder, Dirk [MitwirkendeR]; Honeck, Mischa [MitwirkendeR]; Honeck, Mischa [HerausgeberIn]; Jones, Jeannette Eileen [MitwirkendeR]; Kaplan, Paul H. D. [MitwirkendeR]; Klimke, Martin [MitwirkendeR]; Klimke, Martin [HerausgeberIn]; Kuhlmann, Anne [MitwirkendeR]; Kuhlmann, Anne [HerausgeberIn]; Lowe, Kate [MitwirkendeR]; Naranch, Bradley [MitwirkendeR]; Paul, Heike [MitwirkendeR]; Pegah, Rashid-S. [MitwirkendeR]; Radcliffe, Kendahl L. [MitwirkendeR]
  • Erschienen: New York; Oxford: Berghahn Books, [2013]
  • Erschienen in: Studies in German History ; 15
  • Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (270 p.)
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.1515/9780857459541
  • ISBN: 9780857459541
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  • Schlagwörter: African Americans Relations with Germans History ; African Americans Germany History ; Black people Race identity Germany History ; Black people Germany Ethnic identity History ; Black people Germany History ; HISTORY / Europe / Germany
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  • Anmerkungen: In English
  • Beschreibung: 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
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