May Opitz (May Ayim) - Showing Our Colors: Afro-German Women Speak Out
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An English translation of the German book Farbe bekennen. A compilation of texts, testimonials and other secondary sources, the collection brings to life the stories of Black German women living amid racism, sexism and other institutional constraints in Germany.
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Edited By May Opitz, Katharina Oguntoye & Dagmar Schultz
With a foreword by Audre Lorde
Translated by Anne V. Adams, in cooperation with Tina Campt, May Opitz & Dagmar Schultz
The University of Massachusetts Press Amherst
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Original title: Farbe bekennen: Afro-deutsche Frauen auf den Spuren ihrer Geschichte 1986 by Orlanda Frauenverlag English translation 1992 by The University of Massachusetts Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America LC 91-17062 ISBN 0-87023-759-4 (cloth); 760-8 (pbk.) Set in Linotron Sabon by Keystone Typesetting, Inc. Printed and bound by Thomson-Shore, Inc.
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[Farbe bekennen. English] Showing our colors: Afro-German women speak out / edited by May Opitz, Katharina Oguntoye, and Dagmar Schuhz: with a foreword by Audre Lorde; translated by Anne V. Adams, in cooperation with Tina Campt, May Opitz, and Dagmar Schultz. p. cm. Translation of: Farbe bekennen. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-87023-759-4 (cloth : alk. paper)ISBN 0-87023-760-8 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. Women, BlackGermanyHistory. 2. BlacksGermanyHistory. 3. Race discriminationGermany. 4. GermanyRace relations. I. Opitz, May. II. Oguntoye, Katharina. III. Schultz, Dagmar. IV. Title: Showing our colors. DD78.B55F3713 1991 305.48'896043dc20 91-17061 CIP
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"And When You Leave, Take Your Pictures With You" by Jo Carrillo is reprinted from This Bridge Called My Back: Writings By Radical Women of Color, ed. Cherre Moraga and Gloria Anzalda (New York: Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, 1983). Used by permission of Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, P.O. Box 908, Latham, N.Y. 12110.
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CONTENTS
Foreword to the English Language Edition
Audre Lorde
vii
Preface to the English Language Edition
xv
Editors' Introduction
xxi
Racism, Sexism, and Precolonial Images of Africa in Germany
May Opitz
1
Precolonial Images of Africa, Colonialism, and Fascism
3
The First Africans in Germany
3
The Middle Ages: "Moors" and White Christians
4
From "Moors" to "Negroes"
6
"Race": The Construction of a Concept
9
Sexism and Racism
11
Notes
15
The Germans in the Colonies
19
"Cultural Mission" and "Heathen Mission"
21
German Women in the Colonies
27
Colonization of Consciousness through Mission and"Education"
30
The Colonial Heritage
34
Notes
37
African and Afro-German Women in the Weimar Republic and under National Socialism
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