Edited by May Opitz (May Ayim), Katharina Oguntoye, and Dagmar Schultz · Translated by Anne V. Adams · University of Massachusetts Press · English edition, 1991; German original, 1986
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 everyday life, connecting colonial legacies with experiences across generations.
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An essential starting point for understanding Black German self-representation and the community knowledge that helped shape the Afro-German movement. Audre Lorde contributes the foreword to the English-language edition.
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Read alongside Tina Campt’s Other Germans and Natasha A. Kelly’s Afrokultur.
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