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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The Little Book of Big Visions: Art and the Worlds We Can Imagine
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…
Peggy Piesche’s Euer Schweigen schützt euch nicht: Black Women’s Organizing in Germany
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.
The SAGE Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood Studies: A Reference Resource
This four-volume encyclopedia introduces the concepts, debates, and research approaches that shape interdisciplinary childhood studies. Its entries span the social and cultural…
Silke Hackenesch’s A Child from Abroad: Forthcoming Adoption History
Silke Hackenesch examines the adoption of Black German children by African American families after the Second World War. The forthcoming book draws on archives, Black newspapers, military correspondence, and personal testimony to place adoption within Cold War and civil rights history.
Yara-Colette Lemke Muniz de Faria’s Zwischen Fürsorge und Ausgrenzung: Black German Childhood after 1945
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.
