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- Other Germans: Black Germans and the Politics of Race, Gender, and Memory in the Third Reich
- Book
- 2009
- Published by: University of Michigan Press
- Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Pol
summary
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 for the book.
In the end, the author comes face to face with an inevitable question: Is there a relationship between the history of Black Germans and those of other black communities?
The answers to Campt's questions make Other Germans essential reading in the emerging study of what it meant to be black and German in the context of a society that looked at anyone with non-German blood as racially impure at best.
Table of Contents
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- 1. “RESONANT ECHOES”
- pp. 31-62
- 3. CONVERSATIONS WITH THE “OTHER WITHIN”
- pp. 91-135
- 4. IDENTIFYING AS THE “OTHER WITHIN”
- pp. 136-167
- APPENDIX Original German Interview Excerpts
- pp. 211-231
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- pp. 263-273
Additional Information
ISBN
9780472021604
Related ISBN(s)
9780472031382, 9780472113606
MARC Record
OCLC
606222536
Pages
295
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No