MAISHA EGGERS KINDHEIT DIFFERENZ
Friday, May 21st, 2010Popularity: 1% [?]
Archive for the ‘Education’ Category
Forthcoming with Palgrave Macmillan Fall 2010:
Friday, May 21st, 2010A BREATH OF FREEDOM:
THE CIVIL RIGHTS STRUGGLE, AFRICAN AMERICAN GIs, AND GERMANY
By Maria Höhn and Martin Klimke
“Maria Höhn’s and Martin Klimke’s carefully researched and lucid Breath of Freedom stands for a paradigm shift in our reading of the civil rights movement and deserves to become a classic in the field; not only does it invite the movement’s relocation in a transnational context; it also succeeds in illustrating the innovative potential of this global perspective by its in-depth case study of the specific intersectionality of post World War II Germany and African America.”
Maria Diedrich, University of Münster
Founder and former president of the Collegium for African American Research (CAAR)
Author of Love Across Color Lines: Ottilie Assing and Frederick Douglass
This moving and beautifully illustrated book, developed from an award-winning research project, examines the experience of African-American GIs in Germany since 1945 and the unique insights they provide into the civil rights struggle at home and abroad. Because of the American military occupation after World War II, America’s unresolved civil rights agenda was exposed to world-wide scrutiny as never before. America’s ambitious efforts to democratize German society after the defeat of Nazism also meant that West Germany was exposed to American ideas of freedom and democracy to a much larger degree than many other countries. READ MORE…
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The ISD Bundestreffen Celebrating 25 Years!
Monday, May 17th, 2010
ISD BUNDESTREFFEN
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Thursday, August 12, 2010 at 2:35pm
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Wednesday, August 18, 2010 at 11:35am
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in Helmarshausen Germany
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When Federal ISD meeting ISD- meets every year, the Black community in Germany.
In November 1985 called for the first time Black women and men nationwide at a meeting in Wiesbaden, step out to get out of that time experienced isolation in a white society. Many followed this call. That was the impetus for a nation (at the time the time being, the old West Germany) Movement of black people in Germany. A novelty in Germany under the Nazis. Much has changed since those early days. From a manageable number of contacts was a complex network. Black people work on topics with each other to create discussion forums, create knowledge, make their private and public space. There will be workshops, lectures, discussions, exchanges, information stalls, children’s program and lots of room to Selbstgestalten. In the evening there’s pure culture, e.g. Films, performance / reading, DJ and live music. And of course you can with ragga, soul, Soukouss, hip hop and everything else is fun to dance floor. Issues at the federal meetings are black history, black people in education and employment, blacks networks, Black Identities in Germany, strengthening of children and young people, self in everyday life, and much more …
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BLACK DEUTSCHLAND
Sunday, February 28th, 2010
VINCENT: “Als ich nach Deutschland kam und deutsch lernte, da hieß es, Neger bedeutet schwarze Person. Das war soweit ok. Ich habe im Wörterbuch nachgeschaut und tatsächlich bedeutete es schwarze Person. Aber wenn du dann auf der Strasse hörst: Nee, das mach ich nicht für dich, ich bin doch nicht dein Neger, dann fängst du an nachzudenken.”
Der Dokumentarfilm BLACK DEUTSCHLAND ist eine intime Studie über das Denken und Fühlen einer gar nicht so kleinen Minderheit, über schwarze Deutsche und Schwarze in Deutschland. Regisseur Oliver Hardt porträtiert Kulturschaffende, die dem Zuschauer auf emotionale, gleichwohl reflektierte und humorvolle Weise eine Idee davon vermitteln, was es bedeutet, als Nicht-Weisser in einer Gesellschaft zu leben, die sich als “weiss” definiert.
In offenen, freundschaftlichen Gesprächen geben die Protagonisten Auskunft über Fremd- und Selbstbilder und Vorurteile, über ein tief verwurzeltes Selbstbewusstsein, aber auch über ihre Ängste und Unsicherheiten.
BLACK DEUTSCHLAND wurde 2006 auf dem World Media Festival in Hamburg mit Silber ausgezeichnet und war für den Hessischen Filmpreis nominiert.
Mit Darius James, Sam Meffire, Vincent Mewanu, Tyron Ricketts, Noah Sow u.a.
SZ-Interview mit Regisseur Oliver Hardt (>>download PDF)
arte-Interview mit der Historikerin Nicola Lauré al-Samarai (>>download PDF)
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