Black German
Heritage &
Research Association
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Browse by student, subject, or creative form. Every project links to the students’ work and its accompanying context.
17 projects

Pathways of Migration
Painting and a personal reflection on migration, adoption, identity, and learning through direct conversation.

The Impacts of Transgenerational Trauma
A final group project responding to the class conversation with Amal Abbass.

Exploring Transnational Black Narratives
A collaborative scrapbook bringing transnational Black narratives into visual form.

Lift Every Voice & Sing
An original arrangement and analysis connecting diaspora, belonging, and Black German adoptee experiences.

Black Transnational Adoption
A recorded student project preserved in the Davidson teaching archive.

Art as Education
Learning from artists’ own perspectives, with a recording of the 2023 student roundtable.

Black German Art & Resistance: Poetry
A group project asking how poetry can speak of love, connection, and empowerment alongside suffering.

Resistant Spaces
A student project, course-period biography, and the 2023 student roundtable.
Human Stories
A musical student project with lyrics available to read alongside the recording.
The Stories Behind the Story
Poetry and an audio recording considering perspective, difference, and belonging.
Finding Identity
A student poem preserved alongside her other contributions to the teaching archive.

Creative Work & Course Reflection
A visual and recorded project by a student who describes being inspired to try unfamiliar creative forms.


Black German Art & Resistance: Course Reflection
An extended reflection and infographic connecting course readings, guest conversations, and historical study.

Attachment Through the Lens of Amal Abbass
A student essay bringing adoptee testimony into conversation with Amal Abbass’ work.

Recorded Student Contribution
A recorded contribution preserved on Raphael’s original student page.
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