Intimate histories : African Americans and Germany since 1933 / Nadja Klopprogge

"Transnational connections between African American and German histories in the "century of extremes" are often misunderstood or overlooked. Intimate Histories uncovers important links and sites of struggle in the history of race, the Nazi period, and the fight for civil rights in bot...

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Hauptverfasser:Klopprogge, Nadja
Format: Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht:New York ; Oxford : Berghahn, 2024
Schriftenreihe:Explorations in culture and international history; volume 12
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Zusammenfassung:"Transnational connections between African American and German histories in the "century of extremes" are often misunderstood or overlooked. Intimate Histories uncovers important links and sites of struggle in the history of race, the Nazi period, and the fight for civil rights in both East and West Germany. Historical investigations take their points of departure from anti-miscegenation laws, forced sterilizations, or casual sexual, cross-racial encounters to frame the shared pasts of African Americans against broader developments surrounding German Fascism, the Cold War, and global struggles for Black liberation"--
Beschreibung:viii, 342 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm
ISBN:9781805394136