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In Listening to Images Tina M. Campt explores a way of listening
closely to photography, engaging with lost archives of historically
dismissed photographs of black subjects taken throughout the black
diaspora. Engaging with photographs through sound, Campt looks
beyond what one usually sees and attunes her senses to the other
affective frequencies through which these photographs register. She
hears in these photos-which range from late nineteenth-century
ethnographic photographs of rural African women and photographs
taken in an early twentieth-century Cape Town prison to postwar
passport photographs in Birmingham, England and 1960s mug shots of
the Freedom Riders-a quiet intensity and quotidian practices of
refusal. Originally intended to dehumanize, police, and restrict
their subjects, these photographs convey the softly buzzing tension
of colonialism, the low hum of resistance and subversion, and the
anticipation and performance of a future that has yet to happen.
Engaging with discourses of fugitivity, black futurity, and black
feminist theory, Campt takes these tools of colonialism and
repurposes them, hearing and sharing their moments of refusal,
rupture, and imagination.
Since the Middle Ages, Africans have lived in Germany as slaves and
scholars, guest workers and refugees. After Germany became a
unified nation in 1871, it acquired several African colonies but
lost them after World War I. Children born of German mothers and
African fathers during the French occupation of Germany were
persecuted by the Nazis. After World War II, many children were
born to African American GIs stationed in Germany and German
mothers. Today there are 500,000 Afro-Germans in Germany out of a
population of 80 million. Nevertheless, German society still sees
them as "foreigners," assuming they are either African or African
American but never German. In recent years, the subject of
Afro-Germans has captured the interest of scholars across the
humanities for several reasons. Looking at Afro-Germans allows us
to see another dimension of the nineteenth- and early
twentieth-century ideas of race that led to the Holocaust.
Furthermore, the experience of Afro-Germans provides insight into
contemporary Germany's transformation, willing or not, into a
multicultural society. The volume breaks new ground not only by
addressing the topic of Afro-Germans but also by combining scholars
from many disciplines. Patricia Mazon is Associate Professor in the
Department of History at the State University of New York at
Buffalo. Reinhild Steingrover is Assistant Professor in the
Department of Humanities at the Eastman School of Music at the
University of Rochester.
An exploration of the subject of Afro-Germans, which, in recent
years has captured the interest of scholars across the humanities
for providing insight into contemporary Germany's transformation
into a multicultural society. Since the Middle Ages, Africans have
lived in Germany as slaves and scholars, guest workers and
refugees. After Germany became a unified nation in 1871, it
acquired several African colonies but lost them after World War I.
Children born of German mothers and African fathers during the
French occupation of Germany were persecuted by the Nazis. After
World War II, many children were born to African American GIs
stationed in Germany and German mothers. Today there are 500,000
Afro-Germans in Germany out of a population of 80 million.
Nevertheless, German society still sees them as "foreigners,"
assuming they are either African or African American but never
German. In recent years, the subject of Afro-Germans has captured
the interest of scholars across the humanities for several reasons.
Looking at Afro-Germans allows us to see another dimension of the
nineteenth- and early twentieth-century ideas of race that led to
the Holocaust. Furthermore, the experience of Afro-Germans provides
insight into contemporary Germany's transformation, willing or not,
into a multicultural society. The volume breaks new ground not
onlyby addressing the topic of Afro-Germans but also by combining
scholars from many disciplines. Patricia Mazon is Associate
Professor in the Department of History at the State University of
New York at Buffalo. Reinhild Steingrover is Assistant Professor in
the Department of Humanities at the Eastman School of Music at the
University of Rochester.
In Image Matters, Tina M. Campt traces the emergence of a black
European subject by examining how specific black European
communities used family photography to create forms of
identification and community. At the heart of Campt's study are two
photographic archives, one composed primarily of snapshots of black
German families taken between 1900 and 1945, and the other
assembled from studio portraits of West Indian migrants to
Birmingham, England, taken between 1948 and 1960. Campt shows how
these photographs conveyed profound aspirations to forms of
national and cultural belonging. In the process, she engages a host
of contemporary issues, including the recoverability of
non-stereotypical life stories of black people, especially in
Europe, and their impact on our understanding of difference within
diaspora; the relevance and theoretical approachability of
domestic, vernacular photography; and the relationship between
affect and photography. Campt places special emphasis on the
tactile and sonic registers of family photographs, and she uses
them to read the complexity of "race" in visual signs and to
highlight the inseparability of gender and sexuality from any
analysis of race and class. Image Matters is an extraordinary
reflection on what vernacular photography enabled black Europeans
to say about themselves and their communities.
In Listening to Images Tina M. Campt explores a way of listening
closely to photography, engaging with lost archives of historically
dismissed photographs of black subjects taken throughout the black
diaspora. Engaging with photographs through sound, Campt looks
beyond what one usually sees and attunes her senses to the other
affective frequencies through which these photographs register. She
hears in these photos—which range from late nineteenth-century
ethnographic photographs of rural African women and photographs
taken in an early twentieth-century Cape Town prison to postwar
passport photographs in Birmingham, England and 1960s mug shots of
the Freedom Riders—a quiet intensity and quotidian practices of
refusal. Originally intended to dehumanize, police, and restrict
their subjects, these photographs convey the softly buzzing tension
of colonialism, the low hum of resistance and subversion, and the
anticipation and performance of a future that has yet to happen.
Engaging with discourses of fugitivity, black futurity, and black
feminist theory, Campt takes these tools of colonialism and
repurposes them, hearing and sharing their moments of refusal,
rupture, and imagination.
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