International Adoption in North American Literature and Culture
How are international adoption and adoptee lives represented in literature and culture? This edited collection brings literary and cultural analysis to questions of family,…
Marie Nejar’s Autobiography: Childhood and Survival in Hamburg
Marie Nejar remembers her childhood in Hamburg-St. Pauli during Nazi rule and her later career as the singer Leila Negra. Her account brings survival, relationships, performance, and the continuing pressures of racial stereotyping into view.
Theodor Michael’s Deutsch sein und schwarz dazu: A Black German Life
Theodor Michael traces a life spanning the Weimar Republic, Nazi persecution and forced labor, and postwar Germany. Family separation, work in entertainment, and his later engagement with Black German communities connect personal memory with a wider history.
Adoption Across Race and Nation: Histories That Cross Borders
Adoption Across Race and Nation: US Histories and Legacies brings together perspectives on adoption, racial power, family, and national belonging. Its chapters place individual…
Hans Massaquoi’s Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany
Hans Massaquoi recalls growing up in Hamburg as the son of a German mother and a Liberian father. His account follows childhood aspirations, racial exclusion, and the struggle to survive Nazi rule and war.