Showing Our Colors: Afro-German Women Speak Out
0870237594, 9780870237591, 9780585163932
An English translation of the German book Farbe bekennen. A compilation of texts, testimonials and other secondary sourc
364
15
2MB
English
Year 1992
Report DMCA / Copyright
DOWNLOAD EPUB FILE
Table of contents :
Foreword to the English Language Edition;
Preface to the English Language Edition;
Precolonial images of Africa, colonialism, and fascism --
The Germans in the Colonies --
African and Afro-German women in the Weimar Republic and under National Socialism --
Our father was Cameroonian, our mother, East Prussian, we are mulattoes / Doris Reiprich and Erika Ngambi Ul Kuo --
An "occupation baby" in postwar Germany / Helga Emde --
"Aren't you glad you can stay here?" / Astrid Berger --
"Mirror the invisible, play the forgotten" / Miriam Goldschmidt --
Three Afro-German women in conversation with Dagmar Schultz / Laura Baum, Katharina Oguntoye, May Optiz[sic] --
"What makes me so different in the eyes of others?" / Ellen Wiedenroth --
Old Europe meets up with itself in a different place / Corinna N. --
"All of a sudden, I knew what I wanted" / Angelika Eisenbrandt --
"I do the same things that others do" / Julia Berger --
Mother: Afro-German, Father: Ghanaian / Abena Adomako --
The break / May Optiz[sic] --
What I've always wanted to tell you / Katharina Oguntoye --
"I never wanted to write, I just couldn't help myself" / Raya Lubinetzki.