Germany and the Black diaspora points of contact, 1250-1914 / editors, Mischa Honeck, Martin Klimke, Anne Kuhlmann-Smirnov.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Honeck, Mischa, 1976-

Klimke, Martin.

Kuhlmann-Smirnov, Anne.

Series:

Studies in German history ; 15.

Studies in German history ; ol. 15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Relations with Germans--History.

African Americans.

African Americans--Germany--History.

Black people--Race identity--Germany--History.

Black people.

Black people--Germany--History.

Germany--Race relations--History.

Germany.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 260 pages) : illustrations, maps

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I - Saints and Slaves, Moors and Hessians; Chapter One - The Calenberg Altarpiece: Black African Christians in Renaissance Germany; Chapter Two - The Black Diaspora in Europe in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries, with Special Reference to German-Speaking Areas; Chapter Three - Ambiguous Duty: Black Servants at German Ancien Régime Courts; Chapter Four - Real and Imagined Africans in Baroque Court Divertissements; Chapter Five - From American Slaves to Hessian Subjects: Silenced Black Narratives of the American Revolution

Part II - From Enlightenment to EmpireChapter Six - The German Reception of African American Writers in the Long Nineteenth Century; Chapter Seven - ""On the Brain of the Negro"": Race, Abolitionism, and Friedrich Tiedemann's Scientific Discourse on the African Diaspora; Chapter Eight - Liberating Sojourns? African American Travelers in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Germany; Chapter Nine - Global Proletarians, Uncle Toms, and Native Savages: Popular German Race Science in the Emancipation Era; Chapter Ten - We Shall Make Farmers of Them Yet: Tuskegee's Uplift Ideology in German Togoland

Chapter Eleven - Education and Migration: Cameroonian Schoolchildren and Apprentices in Germany, 1884-1914Afterword - Africans in Europe: New Perspectives; Selected Bibliography; Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-80758-801-7

1-78533-333-X

0-85745-954-6

OCLC:

859536987