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Discover literature, memoir, scholarship, and community voices that deepen conversations about Black German histories, adoption, identity, and belonging.
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Rassismusforschung: Handbuch für Wissenschaft, Studium und Praxis
Published · August 31, 2026
A reference handbook surveying theories, research methods and empirical fields in German-language racism research. Poutrus and Aikins contribute to the volume.
Nomos · ISBN 9783848777228
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Alice Hasters’s Anti Opfer: Making Room for Vulnerability
Published · April 30, 2026
German edition
Racism & Antiracism
Alice Hasters examines our discomfort with vulnerability and asks what recognizing harm and responsibility could mean for public life.
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Sharon Dodua Otoo’s So, in etwa, ist es geschehen: History on the Journey
Published · April 29, 2026
German edition
Literature & Arts · Black German History
Sharon Dodua Otoo’s new novel brings family remembrance and the pressures of the present together on a journey to the Baltic coast.
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Crystal A. Smith’s A Purpose for Every Thorn: Faith and Reflection
Published · March 7, 2026
English edition
Memoir & Life Writing
A Christian community reading selection on identity, forgiveness, and finding meaning through difficult seasons.
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The Remarkable Life of Reed Peggram: The Man Who Stared Down World War II in the Name of Love
Published · February 3, 2026
A biography following a queer Black American scholar’s life in Europe, his relationship with a Danish scholar and his efforts to survive the Second World War. Mentioned in UW–Madison’s Afropean 2026 programme.
Viking · ISBN 9780593654194
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Tupoka Ogette’s Trotzdem zuhause: A Life in Search of Home
Published · February 2026
German edition
Memoir & Life Writing · Racism & Antiracism · Black German History
Tupoka Ogette’s memoir brings childhood, motherhood, racism, and belonging into a personal account of making a home.
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Marion Kraft’s Weltenwechsel: Black German Lives Across Generations
Published · January 28, 2026
German edition
Literature & Arts · Black German History · Racism & Antiracism
Marion Kraft’s debut novel follows Julia from a childhood shaped by war, poverty, and racial exclusion toward a life of greater independence. The experiences of three generations of women open a Black German perspective on West Germany after 1945.
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Nnedimma Okoli’s Torn Between Homes: Migration, Motherhood, and Belonging
Published · December 20, 2025
English edition
Literature & Arts
Nnedimma Okoli’s debut novel follows a Nigerian mother in 1993 Mainz, opening conversations about Black family life, motherhood, migration, and the stories families preserve.
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Lieber Sohn oder So rettest du die Welt
Published · October 14, 2025
A letter to the next generation that places care and solidarity at the centre of social change.
Kjona · ISBN 9783910372542
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Von Luanda und Maputo nach Ost-Berlin: Erinnerungen afrikanischer Werktätiger an die DDR
Published · March 12, 2025
Based on more than 260 life-history interviews, this book follows Angolan and Mozambican workers’ experiences in the GDR and across borders. Warda provides the foreword.
Ch. Links Verlag · ISBN 9783962892319
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Decolonial Sweden
Published · December 16, 2024
Essays connecting Sweden’s colonial histories to present questions of racial identity, Indigenous resistance and international justice. Mentioned in UW–Madison’s Afropean 2026 programme.
Routledge · ISBN 9781032500331
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Lieben
Published · September 24, 2024
Roig reflects on love as a force connecting personal relationships, justice and collective life.
Hanser Berlin · ISBN 9783446279834
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Made in Germany? Art and Identity in a Global Nation
Published · September 17, 2024
An exhibition catalogue examining contemporary art, migration and changing ideas of German identity, with contributions by Warda, Kelly and other scholars and curators.
Harvard Art Museums / Yale University Press · ISBN 9780300278804
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Like Water Like Sea
Published · May 2024
A novel about grief, queer intimacy, mental health and the difficult work of rebuilding a life.
Cassava Republic
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Unlearn Patriarchy 2
Published · March 14, 2024
An edited collection of essays examining patriarchal habits and the possibilities of learning different ways to live.
Ullstein · ISBN 9783550202773
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Ngozi Okwuosa’s Maik und Malaika feiern das Yam-Erntefest
Published · 2024
German edition
Children’s Books
Maik and Malaika prepare a yam harvest celebration for their grandfather in Ngozi Okwuosa’s picture book about family, tradition, and gratitude.
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Alice Hasters’s Identitätskrise: Identity, Memory, and Social Change
Published · October 22, 2023
German edition
Racism & Antiracism · Black German History
Alice Hasters explores identity, historical responsibility, and the gap between society’s self-image and lived reality in Identitätskrise.
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Erinnerungskämpfe: Neues deutsches Geschichtsbewusstsein
Published · September 8, 2023
Essays on contested German public memory. Warda and Poutrus co-author the chapter on the GDR as a migration society and racist violence in the post-unification years.
Reclam · ISBN 9783150114544
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Schwarz. Deutsch. Weiblich.: Warum Feminismus mehr als Geschlechtergerechtigkeit fordern muss
Published · August 31, 2023
Kelly connects Black women’s histories and personal experience with a critique of exclusion within feminism.
Piper · ISBN 9783492071147
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Das Ende der Ehe: Für eine Revolution der Liebe
Published · March 30, 2023
A feminist critique of marriage, economic dependence and the social rules that shape intimacy.
Ullstein
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Charles M. Huber’s Weltbühne Afrika: Africa, Sovereignty, and Global Relations
Published · 2023
German edition
Racism & Antiracism
Charles M. Huber combines personal experience with an examination of Africa’s relations with Europe and other global powers. He considers sovereignty, changing partnerships, and the narratives through which Africa is discussed outside the continent.
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Ngozi Okwuosa’s Maik und Malaika und das große Schiff aus Müll
Published · 2023
German edition
Children’s Books
Maik and Malaika’s river adventure becomes a story of creative play, reuse, and caring for the environment in this picture book by Ngozi Okwuosa.
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Mapping Black Europe: Monuments, Markers, Memories
Published · 2023
Black scholars and activists trace public memory, community histories and overlooked places across eight European capitals.
transcript · ISBN 9783837654134
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Adoption Across Race and Nation: Histories That Cross Borders
Published · November 2022
English edition
Adoption & Family Separation · Racism & Antiracism
Adoption Across Race and Nation: US Histories and Legacies brings together perspectives on adoption, racial power, family, and national belonging. Its chapters place individual…
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Resonanzen – Schwarzes Literaturfestival: Eine Dokumentation
Published · October 2022
Documentation of the 2022 Black literature festival, including six invited authors’ short stories and conversations about African diasporic traditions in German-language literature.
Spector Books · ISBN 9783959056540
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Wolfgang Mattheuer / Stan Douglas
Published · September 2022
An exhibition catalogue linking landscape, gardening and social politics. Includes a contribution by Joshua Kwesi Aikins.
Hatje Cantz · ISBN 9783775753036
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Herr Gröttrup setzt sich hin: Drei Texte
Published · July 27, 2022
A collection containing the Bachmann Prize-winning story, the Klagenfurt speech Dürfen Schwarze Blumen malen?, and an imagined journey to Klagenfurt with the author’s parents.
S. Fischer · ISBN 9783103971859
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I AM MILLI: Ikonografien des Schwarzen Feminismus
Published · 2022
The exhibition catalogue brings Black women’s visual art and essays into conversation about self-representation and colonial ways of seeing.
Orlanda · ISBN 9783949545276
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Lena Whooo’s un-fulfilled: Identity, Freedom, and Life
Published · 2022
German edition
Literature & Arts
Lena Whooo brings poetry, short prose, and drawings together to explore identity, freedom, and the uneven terrain between satisfaction and dissatisfaction. The collection draws on personal reflection and the process of finding an artistic voice.
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Ngozi Okwuosa’s Maik und Malaika: Der herbstliche Schuhsalat
Published · 2022
German edition
Children’s Books
A lost rain boot turns autumn play into a shared adventure for Maik and Malaika in this picture book by German-Nigerian author Ngozi Okwuosa.
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Ngozi Okwuosa’s Maik und Malaika: Die versteckte Weihnachtskrippe
Published · 2022
German edition
Children’s Books
A Christmas Eve adventure with Maik and Malaika, bringing diverse children and family traditions into German-language reading for young learners.
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Gesammeltes Schweigen
Published · 2022
Otoo responds to Böll’s Doktor Murkes gesammeltes Schweigen through letters, messages and literary experiments: an imagined conversation across generations.
Edition Zweifel · ISBN 9783982432304
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Scars of War: The Politics of Paternity and Responsibility for the Amerasians of Vietnam
Published · December 1, 2021 · paperback 2025
A history of US policy toward the Vietnamese children of American fathers, examining citizenship, paternity, race and responsibility after the Vietnam War.
University of Nebraska Press · ISBN 9781496200549
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Sisters and Souls 2: Inspirationen durch May Ayim
Published · 2021
A new generation of writers reflects on May Ayim’s continuing influence and Black community futures.
Orlanda · ISBN 9783944666938
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Rassismus: Strukturelle Probleme brauchen strukturelle Lösungen!
Published · 2021
An introduction to structural racism and the need for changes beyond individual attitudes.
Atrium · ISBN 9783855351145
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Adas Raum / Ada’s Room / Ada’s Realm
Published · February 24, 2021 · English translations 2023
A novel linking women named Ada across centuries, from West Africa to contemporary Berlin. English editions are Ada’s Room (US) and Ada’s Realm (UK), translated by Jon Cho-Polizzi.
S. Fischer / Riverhead Books / MacLehose Press · ISBN 9783103973150
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Why We Matter: Das Ende der Unterdrückung
Published · February 15, 2021
Roig draws on family experience to examine intersecting forms of oppression and imagine solidarity.
Aufbau · ISBN 9783351038472
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Ngozi Okwuosa’s Rapulu’s Rainbow Stars: Friendship and Belonging
Published · 2021
English edition
Children’s Books · Racism & Antiracism
Ngozi Okwuosa’s English-language picture book explores albinism, friendship, and belonging through Rapulu’s experience of exclusion and his friends’ response.
Read the book spotlight →Afrozensus 2020: Lebensrealitäten, Rassismuserfahrungen und Empowerment Schwarzer, afrikanischer und afrodiasporischer Menschen in Deutschland
Published · 2021 · research report on the 2020 survey
A substantial research report on Black life, discrimination and empowerment in Germany. Free German and English downloads are available.
EOTO / Citizens For Europe
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Layla Zami’s Contemporary PerforMemory: Dancing with Memory
Published · December 2020
English edition
Literature & Arts
Layla Zami explores how dance carries historical memory, responds to trauma, and opens possibilities for diasporic futures.
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Un_Masking Difference: Literary Voices from Behind the Mask
Published · 2020
International literary voices consider masks, difference and the experience of the pandemic.
mikrotext · ISBN 9783948631116
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Dürfen Schwarze Blumen malen?
Published · June 18, 2020
The 2020 Klagenfurt address on literature, language and the power to describe people, examining racism and responsibility in literary expression.
Heyn
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The SAGE Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood Studies: A Reference Resource
Published · April 2020
English edition
Childhood & Education
This four-volume encyclopedia introduces the concepts, debates, and research approaches that shape interdisciplinary childhood studies. Its entries span the social and cultural…
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A War Born Family: African American Adoption in the Wake of the Korean War
Published · January 28, 2020
A history of African American families’ efforts to adopt Black Korean children, tracing the relationship between military families, racial discrimination, civil rights and transnational adoption.
NYU Press · ISBN 9781479872329
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The Comet – 150 Years W. E. B. Du Bois: Afrofuturism 2.0
Published · 2020
An anthology connecting Du Bois’s speculative fiction with contemporary Black visions of the future.
Orlanda · ISBN 9783944666631
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Alice Hasters on Everyday Racism: Was weiße Menschen nicht über Rassismus hören wollen aber wissen sollten
Published · September 23, 2019
German edition
Racism & Antiracism · Black German History · Memoir & Life Writing
Alice Hasters connects her experiences as a Black woman in Germany with a clear examination of everyday racism and antiracist responsibility.
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Powerful Frequencies: Radio, State Power, and the Cold War in Angola, 1931–2002
Published · August 20, 2019
A study of broadcasting, political power and listening in colonial and independent Angola. Mentioned in UW–Madison’s Afropean 2026 programme.
Ohio University Press · ISBN 9780821423707
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Afropean: Notes from Black Europe / Afropäisch
Published · June 6, 2019 · German translation 2020
Travel writing and reportage exploring Black communities, belonging and everyday life across Europe. German edition: Afropäisch – Eine Reise durch das schwarze Europa. Mentioned in UW–Madison’s Afropean 2026 programme.
Allen Lane / Penguin / Suhrkamp
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Umkämpftes Asyl: Vom Nachkriegsdeutschland bis in die Gegenwart
Published · May 29, 2019
A historical study of asylum in postwar Germany, tracing public controversies, refugee reception and the political meanings of protection.
Ch. Links Verlag · ISBN 9783962890360
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Schwarzer Feminismus: Grundlagentexte
Published · March 2019
Foundational Black feminist texts in German translation trace the connections between race, gender, class and political struggle.
Unrast · ISBN 9783897713178
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Judy Fambrough-Billingsley’s Too Brown to Keep: A Search for Family
Published · 2019
English edition
Memoir & Life Writing · Adoption & Family Separation · Black German History
Too Brown to Keep: A Search for Love, Forgiveness and Healing follows Judy Fambrough-Billingsley’s journey from childhood in Germany and adoption in the United States to a search…
Read the book spotlight →Narrating African FutureS: In(ter)ventions and Agencies in African and African Diasporic Fiction
Published · 2019
An edited collection on African and diasporic visions of the future across literature and other cultural forms.
Routledge · ISBN 9780367086589
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Marion Kraft’s Empowering Encounters with Audre Lorde: Memory and Resistance
Published · July 2, 2018
English and German editions
Black Feminism · Black German History · Literature & Arts
Drawing on a personal friendship, Marion Kraft considers Audre Lorde’s literary and political influence through essays, speeches, and an interview. The collection connects Lorde’s writing with Black feminist organizing across national borders.
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Geschichte schreiben: Neue Rundschau 2018/2
Published · June 21, 2018
A literary journal issue asking how colonial histories can be rewritten and told from different perspectives, bringing together writers, scholars and artists.
S. Fischer · ISBN 9783108091149
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Postcolonial Paris: Fictions of Intimacy in the City of Light
Published · June 12, 2018
A study of literature, cinema and art that brings African American, Maghrebi and French immigrant experiences into accounts of Paris. Mentioned in UW–Madison’s Afropean 2026 programme.
University of Wisconsin Press · ISBN 9780299315801
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Millis Erwachen / Milli’s Awakening: Schwarze Frauen, Kunst und Widerstand
Published · 2018
The companion book to Kelly’s documentary shares the perspectives of eight Black women working in the arts in Germany.
Orlanda · ISBN 9783944666402
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Die Geschichte von Kreis und Viereck
Published · 2018
A short story and free educational booklet about circles living among squares, belonging and exclusion. An accessible German adaptation is also linked on the author’s page.
RAA Berlin
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Nach Auschwitz: Schwieriges Erbe DDR / After Auschwitz: The Difficult Legacies of the GDR
Published · 2018 · expanded German edition and English translation 2021
A collection examining East Germany’s relationship with the Nazi past and the histories of antisemitism, racism and exclusion. English edition: After Auschwitz (2021).
Wochenschau Verlag / Berghahn Books
Book / publisher information →Sankofa BRD: Eine Dokumentation Schwarzer deutscher Kulturproduktion zur Zeit des Mauerfalls
Published · 2017
Interviews, archival documents and photo collages record Black German cultural production and activism around the fall of the Berlin Wall.
epubli · ISBN 9783745074994
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International Adoption in North American Literature and Culture
Published · September 2017
English edition
Adoption & Family Separation · Literature & Arts
How are international adoption and adoptee lives represented in literature and culture? This edited collection brings literary and cultural analysis to questions of family,…
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When We Speak of Nothing
Published · July 2017
Friendship and queer Black coming of age connect London and Nigeria in this novel.
Cassava Republic
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die dinge, die ich denke, während ich höflich lächle … und Synchronicity: Zwei Novellen
Published · March 16, 2017
A German collected edition of Otoo’s first two novellas, exploring family rupture, loss, colour and self-determination.
Fischer Taschenbuch · ISBN 9783596298747
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Chocolate and Blackness: A Cultural History
Published · 2017
A cultural history of chocolate that examines production, advertising and racial symbolism, including African American and Black German contexts. Mentioned in UW–Madison’s Afropean 2026 programme.
Campus Verlag · ISBN 9783593507767
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Black Anthology: Adult Adoptees Claim Their Space (The AN-YA Project)
Published · November 1, 2016
English edition
Memoir & Life Writing · Adoption & Family Separation · Racism & Antiracism
Black adult adoptees share distinct stories of identity, family, racism, and belonging. Includes Rosemarie Peña’s essay on Black German reunification and diaspora.
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Natasha A. Kelly’s Afrokultur: Black Knowledge Across Generations
Published · 2016
German edition
Black German History · Black Feminism · Racism & Antiracism
Natasha A. Kelly places Black German history and intellectual life in a global conversation through the work of W. E. B. Du Bois, Audre Lorde, and May Ayim. She examines the conditions under which Black knowledge is recognized, excluded, and carried forward.
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SchwarzÖsterreich: Die Kinder afro-amerikanischer Besatzungssoldaten
Published · 2016
This illustrated exhibition catalogue combines archival research and interviews on Black Austrian children, family separation and adoption to the United States.
Löcker · ISBN 9783854098027
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breach
Published · 2016
Eight short stories explore migration, borders and the encounters surrounding the refugee camp in Calais.
Peirene Press
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Sisters and Souls: Inspirationen von May Ayim
Published · 2015
A substantial anthology of Black women’s writing about May Ayim’s influence, political memory and creative possibilities.
Orlanda · ISBN 9783944666211
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Winter Shorts
Published · October 2015
An English-language anthology of winter stories set in German-speaking countries, with writing by Black authors including Otoo, Burnley, Elsa M’bala and Njideka Stephanie Iroh.
edition assemblage · ISBN 9783942885942
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Marion Kraft’s Kinder der Befreiung: Black German Perspectives after 1945
Published · August 31, 2015
English and German editions
Black German History · Adoption & Family Separation · Memoir & Life Writing
Kinder der Befreiung: Transatlantische Erfahrungen und Perspektiven Schwarzer Deutscher der Nachkriegsgeneration brings together Black German perspectives on the postwar…
Read the book spotlight →The Afropean Contemporary: Literatur- und Gesellschaftsmagazin
Published · 2015
An Afrofuturist literary and cultural magazine in book form, bringing together Black creative voices.
epubli · ISBN 9783844283266
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Erste Indaba Schwarzer Kulturschaffender in Deutschland: Protokolle
Published · 2015
Proceedings from a gathering of Black cultural workers in Berlin, documenting experiences, strategies and institutional challenges.
epubli · ISBN 9783737560122
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Alexander G. Weheliye’s Habeas Viscus: Race, Flesh, and the Human
Published · August 1, 2014
English edition
Racism & Antiracism · Black Feminism
Alexander G. Weheliye examines how racial power shapes who is recognized as fully human. Drawing centrally on Hortense Spillers and Sylvia Wynter, he brings Black feminist thought into debates about bodies, political violence, and the possibilities of life beyond racial hierarchies.
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Synchronicity / Synchronicity: The Original Story
Published · August 2014 · original English edition 2015
An illustrated novella about Cee, whose world begins losing its colours. German translation by Mirjam Nuenning, illustrations by Sita Ngoumou; also available in English as The Original Story.
edition assemblage · ISBN 9783942885744
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Violent Intermediaries: African Soldiers, Conquest, and Everyday Colonialism in German East Africa
Published · July 1, 2014
A history of African askari soldiers and the social relationships through which German colonial rule and violence were established. Mentioned in UW–Madison’s Afropean 2026 programme.
Ohio University Press · ISBN 9780821420898
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Homestory Deutschland: Black Biographies in Historical and in Present Times
Published · English edition announced May 2014; German exhibition catalogue first published 2006
A collective self-portrait of Black German history, told through biographies spanning three centuries.
edition assemblage / ISD · ISBN 9783942885669
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Regina Anderson Andrews, Harlem Renaissance Librarian
Published · May 1, 2014
A biography of the librarian, cultural organiser and activist whose work at the New York Public Library supported Harlem Renaissance writers and challenged unequal treatment. Mentioned in UW–Madison’s Afropean 2026 programme.
University of Illinois Press · ISBN 9780252038501
Book / publisher information →Afro-Nordic Landscapes: Equality and Race in Northern Europe
Published · April 24, 2014
An edited collection on African diasporic experiences, racial inequality and the legacies of empire in Nordic societies. Mentioned in UW–Madison’s Afropean 2026 programme.
Routledge
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AfroFictional In[ter]ventions: Revisiting the BIGSAS Festival of African(-Diasporic) Literatures 2011–2013
Published · February 2014
An illustrated volume bringing African and diasporic literature into dialogue with music, film, visual art and critical thought.
edition assemblage · ISBN 9783942885676
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Afro Shop
Published · January 31, 2014
Poetry and graphic art by Afro-German writers and artists explore home, identity, love and everyday resistance.
epubli · ISBN 9783844280135
Book / publisher information →Arriving in the Future: Stories of Home and Exile
Published · 2014
An English-language anthology of poetry, fiction and essays by Black writers and artists living in Germany.
epubli · ISBN 9783844292107
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Black Germany: The Making and Unmaking of a Diaspora Community, 1884–1960
Published · September 26, 2013
A history of Black community formation in Germany, tracing family lives, migration and persecution under Nazism.
Cambridge University Press · ISBN 9781107041363
Book / publisher information →Africa in Europe: Studies in Transnational Practice in the Long Twentieth Century
Published · 2013
An edited volume about African diasporic mobility, cultural production and community across European borders.
Liverpool University Press · ISBN 9781846317842
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Nzitu Mawakha’s Daima: Images of Women of Colour in Germany
Published · 2013
English edition
Black Feminism · Literature & Arts · Black German History
Photographs and first-person texts bring Black women living and working in Germany into a collective portrait. Nzitu Mawakha’s black-and-white images show individuals, friendships, and community, while the women’s words return the gaze to the reader.
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Theodor Michael’s Deutsch sein und schwarz dazu: A Black German Life
Published · 2013
English and German editions
Memoir & Life Writing · Black German History · Racism & Antiracism
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.
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Also by Mail
Published · 2013
A play exploring Nigerian-German family relationships, inheritance and belonging across generations.
edition assemblage / Witnessed
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Bianco e nero: Storia dell’identità razziale degli italiani
Published · 2013
An Italian-language study of racial identity, whiteness and political culture from national unification through fascism and the postwar decades. Mentioned in UW–Madison’s Afropean 2026 programme.
Le Monnier Università / Mondadori Education · ISBN 9788800744157
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Postcolonial Italy: Challenging National Homogeneity
Published · December 6, 2012
An interdisciplinary collection on Italian colonialism, migration and the contested boundaries of national identity. Mentioned in UW–Madison’s Afropean 2026 programme.
Palgrave Macmillan · ISBN 9781137281456
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The Little Book of Big Visions: Art and the Worlds We Can Imagine
Published · September 2012
English edition
Literature & Arts · Black Feminism
The Little Book of Big Visions: How to Be an Artist and Revolutionize the World gathers perspectives on Black artistic practice and the possibilities that art can open. Edited by…
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Tina Campt’s Image Matters: Family Photographs and Belonging
Published · March 2012
English edition
Black German History · Literature & Arts
What can a family photograph tell us beyond what first meets the eye? Image Matters: Archive, Photography, and the African Diaspora in Europe examines photographs of Black German families and portraits of West Indian migrants in B
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the things i am thinking while smiling politely
Published · February 2012 · German translation 2013
A Black British woman rebuilds her life after the breakdown of her marriage. German title: die dinge, die ich denke, während ich höflich lächle; translated by Mirjam Nuenning.
edition assemblage · ISBN 9783942885225
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Peggy Piesche’s Euer Schweigen schützt euch nicht: Black Women’s Organizing in Germany
Published · 2012
German edition
Black Feminism · Black German History
Peggy Piesche brings writing by Audre Lorde together with the perspectives of Black women engaged in organizing in Germany. Essays, poetry, recollections, and dialogue trace the relationships through which a movement found language, community, and political force.
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Fatima El-Tayeb’s European Others: Belonging from Below
Published · June 22, 2011
English edition
Racism & Antiracism · Black Feminism
In European Others: Queering Ethnicity in Postnational Europe, Fatima El-Tayeb examines how racialized communities challenge narrow ideas of who belongs in Europe. Music, performance, activism, gender, and sexuality become routes
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Wie Rassismus aus Wörtern spricht: (K)Erben des Kolonialismus im Wissensarchiv deutsche Sprache
Published · 2011 · publisher lists the fourth edition in 2019
A critical reference work examining colonial histories within German language, knowledge and everyday racial thinking.
Unrast · ISBN 9783897715011
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Die Akte James Knopf: Afrodeutsche Wort- und Streitkunst
Published · October 9, 2010
Poetry, spoken word and political satire confront everyday racism and the negotiation of Afro-German identity.
Unrast · ISBN 9783897716018
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this is not about sadness
Published · 2010
Two women in London build a friendship across differences of age, background and painful memory.
Unrast
Book / publisher information →Weimar through the Lens of Gender: Prostitution Reform, Woman’s Emancipation, and German Democracy, 1919–33
Published · 2010
A political and social history connecting prostitution reform, women’s activism and the contradictions of Weimar democracy. Mentioned in UW–Madison’s Afropean 2026 programme.
University of Michigan Press · ISBN 9780472117345
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Emotions and Understanding: Wittgensteinian Perspectives
Published · November 27, 2008 · copyright 2009
An edited philosophical collection exploring emotion, ethics and interpersonal understanding through approaches informed by Ludwig Wittgenstein.
Palgrave Macmillan · ISBN 9780230201446
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Intonations: A Social History of Music and Nation in Luanda, Angola, from 1945 to Recent Times
Published · October 15, 2008
A history of popular music, urban life and the making of national identity in Angola during and after colonial rule. Mentioned in UW–Madison’s Afropean 2026 programme.
Ohio University Press · ISBN 9780821418246
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Noah Sow’s Deutschland Schwarz Weiß: Understanding Everyday Racism
Published · 2008
German edition
Racism & Antiracism
Deutschland Schwarz Weiß: Der alltägliche Rassismus examines how racism operates through everyday language, media, and assumptions about Germany. Noah Sow combines direct analysis and humor to make familiar practices available for
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Afroism: Zur Situation einer ethnischen Minderheit in Deutschland
Published · 2008
An early study of Black identity and the situation of an ethnic minority in Germany.
VDM · ISBN 9783639041354
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200 Years Later…: Commemorating the 200 Year Anniversary of the Abolition of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Published · 2008
A commemorative reader connecting histories of enslavement, resistance and abolition with questions of memory.
Werkstatt der Kulturen / AfricAvenir · ISBN 9783981273304
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Marie Nejar’s Autobiography: Childhood and Survival in Hamburg
Published · 2007
German edition
Memoir & Life Writing · Black German History · Literature & Arts
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.
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Exclusion and Inclusion: Gradations of Whiteness and Socio-Economic Engineering in German Southwest Africa, 1884–1914
Published · 2007
A study of racial hierarchy, social control and the construction of whiteness in colonial German Southwest Africa.
Peter Lang · ISBN 9783039110605
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Ankunft – Alltag – Ausreise: Migration und interkulturelle Begegnung in der DDR-Gesellschaft
Published · 2005
An edited volume on migrants, political exiles, foreign workers and encounters between newcomers and established residents in East Germany.
Böhlau · ISBN 9783412146054
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Antiamerikanismus im 20. Jahrhundert: Studien zu Ost- und Westeuropa
Published · 2005
Comparative historical studies of anti-Americanism in Eastern and Western Europe during the twentieth century.
J. H. W. Dietz Nachf. · ISBN 9783801241544
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Charles M. Huber’s Ein Niederbayer im Senegal: A Life Across Two Worlds
Published · 2004
German edition
Memoir & Life Writing · Black German History
Charles M. Huber recounts his Black German childhood in Lower Bavaria and his relationship to his Senegalese heritage. The memoir approaches identity through family, place, and the experience of growing up across cultural expectations.
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Tina Campt’s Other Germans: Race, Memory, and Life Stories
Published · 2004
English edition
Black German History · Racism & Antiracism
In Other Germans: Black Germans and the Politics of Race, Gender, and Memory in the Third Reich, Tina Campt brings historical analysis into conversation with the recollections of two Black Germans who lived through National Social
Read the book spotlight →Fremde und Fremd-Sein in der DDR: Zu historischen Ursachen der Fremdenfeindlichkeit in Ostdeutschland
Published · 2003
An edited collection investigating how East German institutions and everyday practices shaped exclusion, migration and hostility toward people treated as outsiders.
Metropol · ISBN 3936411018
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Yara-Colette Lemke Muniz de Faria’s Zwischen Fürsorge und Ausgrenzung: Black German Childhood after 1945
Published · 2002
German edition
Black German History · Adoption & Family Separation · Childhood & Education
This study examines how postwar German institutions and welfare organizations approached children born to German mothers and Black American soldiers. It follows the tensions between care, exclusion, institutional separation, and efforts at integration.
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Die Erfindung des Goldbroilers: Über den Zusammenhang zwischen Herrschaftssicherung und Konsumentwicklung in der DDR
Published · 2002
A study of poultry production and consumption in East Germany, examining the relationship between SED state planning and everyday consumer expectations.
Böhlau · ISBN 9783412144005
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Sverige och de Andra: Postkoloniala perspektiv
Published · September 19, 2001
A Swedish-language anthology examining how colonial histories and ideas about race continue to shape Sweden, national identity, migration and cultural life. The title translates as Sweden and the Others: Postcolonial Perspectives.
Natur & Kultur · ISBN 9789127084698
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Hans Massaquoi’s Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany
Published · 1999
English edition
Memoir & Life Writing · Black German History · Racism & Antiracism
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.
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Ika Hügel-Marshall’s Invisible Woman / Daheim unterwegs: A Black German Life
Published · 1998
English and German editions
Memoir & Life Writing · Black German History · Adoption & Family Separation · Racism & Antiracism
Ika Hügel-Marshall’s memoir traces her childhood in postwar Germany, separation from her family into institutional care, and the racism she faced growing up. Her later connections with Black German communities and her search for her African American father open new possibilities for family and belonging.
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Marion Kraft’s The African Continuum: Black Women’s Literary Traditions
Published · 1995
English edition
Black Feminism · Literature & Arts
This study examines how African cultural traditions and storytelling practices shape contemporary African American women’s writing. Kraft considers narrative voice, relationships among women, inherited stories, and literary forms through a Black feminist approach.
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Schwarze Frauen der Welt: Marion Kraft on Europe and Migration
Published · 1994
German edition
Black Feminism · Racism & Antiracism
Co-edited by Marion Kraft and Rukhsana Shamim Ashraf-Khan, this anthology brings Black women’s perspectives into discussions of Europe and migration. Kraft’s contribution addresses feminism and women of African descent in Europe.
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Showing Our Colors: Afro-German Women Speak Out
Published · December 4, 1991
English and German editions
Black Feminism · Black German History · Memoir & Life Writing
History, poetry, interviews, and personal testimony meet in Showing Our Colors: Afro-German Women Speak Out, the English translation of Farbe bekennen. The collection places Black women’s voices at the center of German history and
Read the book spotlight →Colorblind Love or Racial Responsibility? The Adoption of Black German Children to Postwar America
Forthcoming · 2027 · New York University Press
English edition
Adoption & Family Separation · Black German History
Silke Hackenesch examines the adoption of Black German children by African American families after the Second World War. Mentioned in UW–Madison’s Afropean 2026 programme. The forthcoming book draws on archives, Black newspapers, military correspondence, and personal testimony to place adoption within Cold War and civil rights history.
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Im Vertrauern
Forthcoming · March 10, 2027 (forthcoming)
Forthcoming: literary letters to Black women authors explore grief, anger, public language and ways to build understanding. Publisher’s announced publication date: March 10, 2027.
S. Fischer · ISBN 9783103977981
Book / publisher information →Africa, Africans, and the First World War
In development · publication date not announced
Book project on African experiences of the First World War. Listed as work in progress in the UW–Madison Afropean 2026 programme; no publication date is supplied.
Cambridge University Press (under contract, according to the programme)
Book project information →Roses for Angela
In development · publication date not announced
Working book title on East German transnational solidarity with Angela Davis. The UW–Madison Afropean 2026 programme describes the manuscript as under review.
Publisher not announced in the programme
Book project information →Race and German Identity: Biracial Descendants of Military Occupation, 1920–1970
In development · publication date not announced
Book manuscript on two generations of German descendants of Allied soldiers of colour. The UW–Madison Afropean 2026 programme identifies it as in progress.
Cambridge University Press (under contract, according to the programme)
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