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Germany and the Black Diaspora - Points of Contact, 1250-1914 (Hardcover)
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Germany and the Black Diaspora - Points of Contact, 1250-1914 (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in German History
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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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