Germany and the Black Diaspora (eBook, ePUB)

Points of Contact, 1250-1914
Redaktion: Honeck, Mischa; Kuhlmann, Anne; Klimke, Martin

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857459541
• Artikelnr.: 39946303

Autorenporträt

Mischa Honeck is a research fellow at the German Historical Institute in Washington, DC. His first book, We Are the Revolutionists: German-Speaking Immigrants and American Abolitionists after 1848 (University of Georgia Press, 2011), was a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2011.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Mischa Honeck, Martin Klimke, and Anne Kuhlmann
 
PART I: SAINTS AND SLAVES, MOORS AND HESSIANS
Chapter 1. The Calenberg Altarpiece: Black African Christians in
Renaissance Germany
Paul Kaplan
Chapter 2. The Black Diaspora in Europe in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth
Centuries, with Special Reference to German-Speaking Areas
Kate Lowe
Chapter 3. Ambiguous Duty: Black Servants at German Ancien Régime Courts
Anne Kuhlmann
Chapter 4. Real and Imagined Africans in German Court divertissements
Rashid-S. Pegah
Chapter 5. From American Slaves to Hessian Subjects: Silenced Black
Narratives of the American Revolution
Maria Diedrich
PART II: FROM ENLIGHTENMENT TO EMPIRE
Chapter 6. The German Reception of African American Writers in the Long
Nineteenth Century
Heike Paul
Chapter 7. "On the Brain of the Negro": Race, Abolitionism, and Friedrich
Tiedemann's Scientific Discourse on the African Diaspora
Jeannette Eileen Jones
Chapter 8. Liberating Sojourns? African American Travelers in
Mid-Nineteenth-Century Germany
Mischa Honeck
Chapter 9. Global Proletarians, Uncle Toms and Native Savages: The
Antinomies of Black Identity in Nineteenth-Century Germany
Bradley Naranch
Chapter 10. We Shall Make Farmers of Them Yet: Tuskegee's Uplift Ideology
in German Togoland
Kendahl Radcliffe
Chapter 11. Education and Migration: Cameroonian School Children and
Apprentices in the German Metropole, 1884-1914
Robbie Aitken
Afterword: Africans in Europe: New Perspectives
Dirk Hoerder
Select Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index