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Germany and the Black Diaspora : Points of Contact, 1250-1914 / ed. by Mischa Honeck, Anne Kuhlmann, Martin Klimke.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in German History ; 15Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (270 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780857459534
  • 9780857459541
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  • 303.4824306 23
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- 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 EMPIRE -- Chapter 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 Scientifi c 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, 1884–1914 -- Afterword AFRICANS IN EUROPE New Perspectives -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Contributors -- Index
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, 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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Frontmatter -- 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 EMPIRE -- Chapter 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 Scientifi c 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, 1884–1914 -- Afterword AFRICANS IN EUROPE New Perspectives -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Contributors -- Index

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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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