Title:	Not so plain as Black and White :
Other Titles:	Afro-German culture and history, 1890–2000
Authors:	Patricia Mazón Reinhild Steingröver
Keywords:	Blacks—Germany—History.
Issue Date:	2004
Publisher:	University of Rochester
Description:	Why Afro-German? Why Africa and Germany? As much as this coupling may seem surprising or unexpected, it turns out, on closer examination, to be uncannily familiar, sometimes a topic of explicit consideration in foundational texts, sometimes only a fragmentary reference. Yet be it as fading trace or as foregrounded topic, a linkage of the two terms shows up repeatedly in the writings of seminal thinkers. In key texts, pertinent to definitions of both Germany and Africa, the other term suddenly appears and takes on a pivotal importance: “Africa” as a referent for German selfreflection, and “Germany” as a figure in the emergence of pan-African consciousness. Despite an initial assumption to think them apart from each other, there is evidence that they tend to converge. It appears that the twain shall meet, in complex entwinements of separation and identification, dialectics of negation and appropriation, spread out through histories of subjectivity and across maps of colonialism and migration
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/10000
ISBN:	1–58046–183–2
Appears in Collections:	African Studies

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