Black History and Germany
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The books in this bibliography can be found in libraries and in bookstores. Not all of these books are currently in print. Where possible, we have provided a link to online sources.
Colors 1800/1900/2000: Signs of Ethnic Difference
Ed. Birgit Tautz
Rodopi, Amsterdam. 2004.
Description: "By recasting instances of 'German' cultural production around the turns of centuries -- 1800, 1900, 2000 -- the essays in this volume examine the role that color has played in perceiving and representing ethnic difference."
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Destined To Witness: Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany
Hans J. Massaquoi
William Morrow and Co. 1999. 443 pages. ISBN: 0-688-17155-9
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German edition: Neger, Neger, Schornsteinfeger - Meine Kindheit in Deutschland
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Germany's Black Holocaust, 1890-1945
Firpo W. Carr
Scholar Technological Institute of Research. 2003.
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Hänschen klein, ging allein - Mein Weg in die neue Welt
Hans J. Massaquoi
Fischer. 2005. Taschenbuch.
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Herero Heroes: A Socio-Political History of the Herero of Namibia, 1890-1923
Jan-Bart Gewald
James Currey. 1998. Hardcover
Ohio University Press. 1999.
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Hitler's Black Victims
Clarence Lusane
Routledge. 2002.
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The Imperialist Imagination: German Colonialism and Its Legacy - Blacks, Germans, and The Politics of Imperialist Imagination, 1920-1960
Eds. Sara Friedrichsmeyer, Sara Lennox, and Susanne Zantop.
University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor. 1998. Paperback.
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Neger, Neger, Schornsteinfeger - Meine Kindheit in Deutschland
Hans J. Massaquoi
Fischer. 2005. Taschenbuch.
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Other Germans: Black Germans and the Politics of Race, Gender, and Memory in the Third Reich
Tina Marie Campt.
University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor. 2003. Hardcover or Paperback.
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The Other Victims: First Person Stories of Non-Jews Persecuted by the Nazis
Ina R. Friedman
Houghton Mifflin (Boston). 1995 (reprint).
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Rasse und Rassimus in der Filmpropaganda gegen die 'schwarze Schmach' 1920-1923
Eds. Hella Hertzfeldt and Katrin Schäfgen
Dietz, Berlin. 2004.
Showing Our Colors: Afro-German Women Speak Out
Eds. May Opitz, Katharina Oguntoye, and Dagmar Schultz
Trans. Anne V. Adams
University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst. 1991.
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Unter die Deutschen gefallen - Erfahrungen eines Afrikaners
Chima Oji
Ullstein. 2001. Taschenbuch.
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