Mobilizing Black Germany

Mobilizing Black Germany

PDF Mobilizing Black Germany Download

  • Author: Tiffany N. Florvil
  • Publisher: University of Illinois Press
  • ISBN: 0252052390
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 427

In the 1980s and 1990s, Black German women began to play significant roles in challenging the discrimination in their own nation and abroad. Their grassroots organizing, writings, and political and cultural activities nurtured innovative traditions, ideas, and practices. These strategies facilitated new, often radical bonds between people from disparate backgrounds across the Black Diaspora. Tiffany N. Florvil examines the role of queer and straight women in shaping the contours of the modern Black German movement as part of the Black internationalist opposition to racial and gender oppression. Florvil shows the multifaceted contributions of women to movement making, including Audre Lorde’s role in influencing their activism; the activists who inspired Afro-German women to curate their own identities and histories; and the evolution of the activist groups Initiative of Black Germans and Afro-German Women. These practices and strategies became a rallying point for isolated and marginalized women (and men) and shaped the roots of contemporary Black German activism. Richly researched and multidimensional in scope, Mobilizing Black Germany offers a rare in-depth look at the emergence of the modern Black German movement and Black feminists’ politics, intellectualism, and internationalism.


Showing Our Colors

Showing Our Colors

PDF Showing Our Colors Download

  • Author: May Opitz
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 280

"Showing Our Colors: Afro-German Women Speak Out is an English translation of the German book Farbe bekennen edited by author May Ayim, Katharina Oguntoye, and Dagmar Schultz. It is the first published book by Afro-Germans. It is the first written use of the term Afro-German."--Amazon.com viewed Oct. 8, 2020


Women Mobilizing Memory

Women Mobilizing Memory

PDF Women Mobilizing Memory Download

  • Author: Ayşe Gül Altınay
  • Publisher: Columbia University Press
  • ISBN: 0231549970
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 744

Women Mobilizing Memory, a transnational exploration of the intersection of feminism, history, and memory, shows how the recollection of violent histories can generate possibilities for progressive futures. Questioning the politics of memory-making in relation to experiences of vulnerability and violence, this wide-ranging collection asks: How can memories of violence and its afterlives be mobilized for change? What strategies can disrupt and counter public forgetting? What role do the arts play in addressing the erasure of past violence from current memory and in creating new visions for future generations? Women Mobilizing Memory emerges from a multiyear feminist collaboration bringing together an interdisciplinary group of scholars, artists, and activists from Chile, Turkey, and the United States. The essays in this book assemble and discuss a deep archive of works that activate memory across a variety of protest cultures, ranging from seemingly minor acts of defiance to broader resistance movements. The memory practices it highlights constitute acts of repair that demand justice but do not aim at restitution. They invite the creation of alternative histories that can reconfigure painful pasts and presents. Giving voice to silenced memories and reclaiming collective memories that have been misrepresented in official narratives, Women Mobilizing Memory offers an alternative to more monumental commemorative practices. It models a new direction for memory studies and testifies to a continuing hope for an alternative future.


Race After Hitler

Race After Hitler

PDF Race After Hitler Download

  • Author: Heide Fehrenbach
  • Publisher: Princeton University Press
  • ISBN: 0691133794
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 280

Heide Fehrenbach traces the complex history of German attitudes to race following 1945 by focusing on the experiences of and the debates surrounding the several thousand postwar children born to African American GIs and their German partners.


Theater of Anger

Theater of Anger

PDF Theater of Anger Download

  • Author: Olivia Landry
  • Publisher: University of Toronto Press
  • ISBN: 1487507690
  • Category : Drama
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 253

Theatre of Anger examines contemporary transnational theatre in Berlin through the political scope of anger, and its trajectory from Aristotle all the way to Audre Lorde and bell hooks.


Mobilizing Islam

Mobilizing Islam

PDF Mobilizing Islam Download

  • Author: Carrie Rosefsky Wickham
  • Publisher: Columbia University Press
  • ISBN: 0231500831
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 325

Mobilizing Islam explores how and why Islamic groups succeeded in galvanizing educated youth into politics under the shadow of Egypt's authoritarian state, offering important and surprising answers to a series of pressing questions. Under what conditions does mobilization by opposition groups become possible in authoritarian settings? Why did Islamist groups have more success attracting recruits and overcoming governmental restraints than their secular rivals? And finally, how can Islamist mobilization contribute to broader and more enduring forms of political change throughout the Muslim world? Moving beyond the simplistic accounts of "Islamic fundamentalism" offered by much of the Western media, Mobilizing Islam offers a balanced and persuasive explanation of the Islamic movement's dramatic growth in the world's largest Arab state.


To Exist is to Resist

To Exist is to Resist

PDF To Exist is to Resist Download

  • Author: Akwugo Emejulu
  • Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
  • ISBN: 9780745339481
  • Category : Ethnic studies
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0

In a divided continent, women of colour come together to make a Black Europe visible.


A Call to Arms

A Call to Arms

PDF A Call to Arms Download

  • Author: Maury Klein
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • ISBN: 1608194094
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 916

The colossal scale of World War II required a mobilization effort greater than anything attempted in all of the world's history. The United States had to fight a war across two oceans and three continents--and to do so, it had to build and equip a military that was all but nonexistent before the war began. Never in the nation's history did it have to create, outfit, transport, and supply huge armies, navies, and air forces on so many distant and disparate fronts. The Axis powers might have fielded better-trained soldiers, better weapons, and better tanks and aircraft, but they could not match American productivity. The United States buried its enemies in aircraft, ships, tanks, and guns; in this sense, American industry and American workers, won World War II. The scale of the effort was titanic, and the result historic. Not only did it determine the outcome of the war, but it transformed the American economy and society. Maury Klein's A Call to Arms is the definitive narrative history of this epic struggle--told by one of America's greatest historians of business and economics--and renders the transformation of America with a depth and vividness never available before.


The Shadow War Against Hitler

The Shadow War Against Hitler

PDF The Shadow War Against Hitler Download

  • Author: Christof Mauch
  • Publisher: Columbia University Press
  • ISBN: 9780231120449
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 364

Filled with revelations and replete with telling detail, this riveting book lifts the curtain on the United States' secret intelligence operations in the war against Nazi Germany.


Islam and Nazi Germany’s War

Islam and Nazi Germany’s War

PDF Islam and Nazi Germany’s War Download

  • Author: David Motadel
  • Publisher: Harvard University Press
  • ISBN: 0674744950
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 509

Winner of the Ernst Fraenkel Prize, Wiener Holocaust Library An Open Letters Monthly Best History Book of the Year A New York Post “Must-Read” In the most crucial phase of the Second World War, German troops confronted the Allies across lands largely populated by Muslims. Nazi officials saw Islam as a powerful force with the same enemies as Germany: the British Empire, the Soviet Union, and the Jews. Islam and Nazi Germany’s War is the first comprehensive account of Berlin’s remarkably ambitious attempts to build an alliance with the Islamic world. “Motadel describes the Mufti’s Nazi dealings vividly...Impeccably researched and clearly written, [his] book will transform our understanding of the Nazi policies that were, Motadel writes, some ‘of the most vigorous attempts to politicize and instrumentalize Islam in modern history.’” —Dominic Green, Wall Street Journal “Motadel’s treatment of an unsavory segment of modern Muslim history is as revealing as it is nuanced. Its strength lies not just in its erudite account of the Nazi perception of Islam but also in illustrating how the Allies used exactly the same tactics to rally Muslims against Hitler. With the specter of Isis haunting the world, it contains lessons from history we all need to learn.” —Ziauddin Sardar, The Independent