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Black German - An Afro-German Life in the Twentieth Century By Theodor Michael (Paperback)
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Black German - An Afro-German Life in the Twentieth Century By Theodor Michael (Paperback)
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This is the first English translation of an important document in
the history of the black presence in Germany and Europe: the
autobiography of Theodor Michael. Theodor Michael is among the few
surviving members of the first generation of 'Afro-Germans': Born
in Germany in 1925 to a Cameroonian father and a German mother, he
grew up in Berlin in the last days of the Weimar Republic. As a
child and teenager he worked in circuses and films and experienced
the tightening knot of racial discrimination under the Nazis in the
years before the Second World War. He survived the war as a forced
labourer, founding a family and making a career as a journalist and
actor in post-war West Germany. Since the 1980s he has become an
important spokesman for the black German consciousness movement,
acting as a human link between the first black German community of
the inter-war period, the pan-Africanism of the 1950s and 1960s,
and new generations of Germans of African descent. Theodor
Michael's life story is a classic account of coming to
consciousness of a man who understands himself as both black and
German; accordingly, it illuminates key aspects of modern German
social history as well as of the post-war history of the African
diaspora. The text has been translated by Eve Rosenhaft, Professor
of German Historical Studies at the University of Liverpool and an
internationally acknowledged expert in Black German studies. It is
accompanied by a translator's preface, explanatory notes, a
chronology of historical events and a guide to further reading, so
that the book will be accessible and useful both for general
readers and for undergraduate students.
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