Tina Campt’s Other Germans: Race, Memory, and Life Stories

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Tina Marie Campt · History · University of Michigan Press · English · First published 2004; paperback 2005

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 Socialism. The book asks how race, gender, and memory shape the telling—and hearing—of these lives.

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A foundational resource for readers interested in Black German oral history and the relationship between individual testimony and wider historical narratives.

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Pair it with Campt’s Image Matters and Showing Our Colors for different approaches to family records, self-representation, and community history.

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