Crosscurrents
African-Americans, Africa and Germany in the Modern World
Published on 15. January 1998
Book
Hardback
278 pages
978-1-57113-098-3 (ISBN)
Description
Studies of aspects of historical interaction between Germany, Africa and black America.
This volume brings together fascinating research on the historical interaction between Germany, African nations and Black Americans. Leading scholars explore the influence of German missions, language and culture, politics, and science on Africa and Black America. Essays examine the medieval links between Germany and Africa, encounters between immigrant Germans and America's African population during the colonial era; the influence of German culture and natinalism on African-American social elites studying in Germany throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; Black American musical performers in Weimar Germany; and the shifting contacts among Black Americans, Germany, and Africa as Germany led Western modernization and expansionism during the twentieth century. The authors present a variety of disciplines and use heretofore untapped sources from German, American, and African depositories.
This volume brings together fascinating research on the historical interaction between Germany, African nations and Black Americans. Leading scholars explore the influence of German missions, language and culture, politics, and science on Africa and Black America. Essays examine the medieval links between Germany and Africa, encounters between immigrant Germans and America's African population during the colonial era; the influence of German culture and natinalism on African-American social elites studying in Germany throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; Black American musical performers in Weimar Germany; and the shifting contacts among Black Americans, Germany, and Africa as Germany led Western modernization and expansionism during the twentieth century. The authors present a variety of disciplines and use heretofore untapped sources from German, American, and African depositories.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Columbia, MD
United States
Publishing group
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
15 s/w Abbildungen
15 b/w illus.
Dimensions
Height: 579 mm
Width: 386 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-57113-098-3 (9781571130983)
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Persons
DAVID McBRIDE is a professor in the African and African-American Studies Department at Penn State University - LEROY HOPKINS is professor of German and Modern Languages, Millersville University, Pennsylvania - C. AISHA BLACKSHIRE-BELAY is professor of African-American Studies and German, Temple University.
Content
Hans W. Debrunner. Africa, Europe, and America: The Modern Roots from a European Perspective - Katherine Faull Eze. Self-Encounters: Two Eighteenth-Century African Memoirs from Moravian Bethlehem - Bruce Levine. Against All Slavery, Whether White or Black: German-American's and the Irrepressible Conflict - Leroy Hopkins. Black Prussians: Germany and African American Education from James W.C. Pennington to Angela Davis - Lawrence Scaff. Weber's Amerikabild and the African American Experience - Christine Naumann. African American Performers and Culture in Weimar Germany - C. Aisha Blackshire-Belay. In Search of Africa in the German World: Transcultural Migrations - David McBride. Missions, Medicine, and Colonial Technologies: Africa and German Colonialism in the Mittel-Afrika Era - Emmanuel Matateyou. King Njoya and the Kingdom of Bamum in German-African Relations 1902-1915 - Kathleen J. Reich. Racially Mixed Marriages in Colonial Namibia - William J. Baker. Jesse Owens and the Germans: A Political Love Story - Monroe H. Little Jr. The Black Military Experience in Germany: From the First World War to the Present - Hamilton H.H. Beck. Censoring Your Ally: W.E.B. Du Bois in the German Democratic Republic - Nicole Waltraud Watson. Afro-Americans in Germany: A Private Perspective - Ali A. Mazrui. The German Factor in the Global Black Experience: From the Berlin Conference to the Berlin Wall.