Marie Nejar, as told to Regina Carstensen · Autobiography · Rowohlt Taschenbuch, 2007 · German
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.
Why we are reading it
Nejar’s testimony adds a Black woman’s life history to accounts of twentieth-century Germany. Read alongside Massaquoi and Michael, it invites attention to how gender, childhood, and popular entertainment shaped different experiences.
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ISBN: 978-3-499-62240-3.
The original German book title contains historical racist language; it is reproduced here for bibliographic identification.
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