Not So Plain as Black and White: Afro-German Culture and History, 1890-2000

by Patricia Mazon and Reinhild Steingrover

Book Overview

Since the Middle Ages, Africans have lived in Germany as slaves and scholars, guest workers and refugees. After Germany became a unified nation in 1871, it acquired several African colonies but lost them after World War I. Children born of German mothers and African fathers during the French occupation of Germany were persecuted by the Nazis. After World War II, many children were born to African American GIs stationed in Germany and German mothers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580463347
• ISBN13: 9781580463348
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: University of Rochester Press
• Length: 267 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"