Other Germans: Black Germans and the Politics of Race, Gender, and Memory in the Third Reich (Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany)
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.72 (874 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0472113607 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 296 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-01-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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Tina Campt is Assistant Professor of Women's Studies at the University of California at Santa Cruz.
Other Germons illustrates the creation of Afro-Germans as a 20th-century undertaking with ramifications in today's Germany." - Sander I., Gilman, University of Illinois, Chicago ",a winning social and political history of black Germans, offering both fieldwork and political analysis to consider the politics of race and gender in the Third Reich. "A solid, engaging history of the experience of Afro-Germans from the 1920s through the Third Reich. Campt's critical work is enhanced by her extensive interviews and by her wide-ranging critical intelligence. Accounts of black German lives are almost nonexistent in studies of German history and culture, making Campt's Other Germans an exceptional and unusual treatment." - Wisconsin Book
Lots of fat and gristle to get to the meat The book is the most tedious I have ever read. The author is in love with the jargon of her field and won't use one word if she can fit in ten or eleven. I'm university educated and I enjoy the challenge of a scholarly work even outside of my specific discipline. Unfamiliar vocabular. "Four Stars" according to Ronald Ateman. Very well written. Review of Other Germans; Black Germans jorg erichsen This book is a must for students of the history of Germany 1920's thru 1945. Who would have known there were Germans of African descent residing in Germany? The book is somewhat incomplete however, as it does not tell us how many African-Germans moved to Germany proper from their col
It's hard to imagine an issue or image more riveting than Black Germans during the Third Reich. Yet accounts of their lives are virtually nonexistent, despite the fact that they lived through a regime dedicated to racial purity.Tina Campt's Other Germans tells the story of this largely forgotten group of individuals, with important distinctions from other accounts. Most strikingly, Campt centers her arguments on race, rather than anti-semitism. She also provides oral history as background for her study, interviewing two Black Germans f