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Kari Gutmann<\/h1>\n

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Course Reflection:<\/h3>\n

BLACK GERMAN ART & RESISTANCE<\/h1>\n


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Black German Art & Resistance explores literature, music, film, poetry, theatre, and activism that has been written, created, performed, influenced, and enacted by Afro- and Black-Germans. This incredibly unique course is taught by Dr. Emily Fazier-Rath, Visiting Assistant Professor of German Studies at Davidson College, and Dr. Rosemarie Pe\u00f1a, president and founder of the Black German Heritage and Research Foundation (BGHRA) and Adjunct Professor of German Studies in the Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern Europe at the University of British Columbia-Vancouver. The bulk of the curriculum revolves around weekly guest lectures from voices such as Dr. Michael McEachrane, Jamele Watkins, Imani Jones-Pugh, Dr. Natasha Kelly, and many others. By bringing in many Black German voices, this class challenges our understanding of knowledge and expectations of higher education, while decolonizing German Studies.<\/p>\n

To kick off this course, Dr. Frazier-Rath and Dr. Pe\u00f1a focused our discussions mainly on the BGHRA and German diaspora around the world. This way the class can toggle with what it means to be \u201cGerman\u201d and challenge the status quo of German Studies. The examination of German imperialism and German colonies directly follows this discussion, framing our understanding of origin of Black Germans. Students read texts like \u201cAdvertising Chocolate, Consuming Race? On the Peculiar Relationship of Chocolate, German Colonialism, and Blackness\u201d (Hackenesch) and \u201cMaking Visible the Invisible: Germany\u2019s Black diaspora, 1880s-1945\u201d (Aitken) as a basis for early Black German history. Aitken\u2019s timeline of the Black diaspora from Imperial Germany through the Weimar Republic and all the way up to Nazi Germany provides the background information required to understand the remainder of the course. This unit also includes one of my favorite articles from the semester, Hackenesch\u2019s examination of the relationship between chocolate as a colonial by-product and the use of Afro-Germans in the marketing and exotification of chocolate and the German colonies. An alternative to Hackenensch\u2019s or Aitken\u2019s work that I propose to be focused on as an alternative or supplementary text is Yara-Colette Lemke Muniz de Faria\u2019s \u201cBlack German \u2018Occupation\u2019 Children: Objects of Study in the Coninuity of German Race Anthropology\u201d to discuss the construction of race before and after World War II. The construction of race is pinnacle to the entirety of this course that must be addressed directly, instead of just focusing on racism and its effects in a Black German context.<\/p>\n

The racism embedded in the marketing of chocolate framed our first guest lecture featuring Dr. Michael McEachrane wonderfully.<\/p>\n