Table of Contents

Dangerous Liaisons: Race, Nation, and German Identity - Fatima El-Tayeb Ph.D.
The First Besatzungskinder: Afro-German Children, Colonial Childrearing Practices, and Racial Policy in German Southwest Africa, 1890-1914 - Krista Molly O'Donnell-Associate Professor
Converging Specters of an Other Within: Race and Gender in Pre- 1945 Afro-German History - Tina M. Campt-Assoc. Professor
Louis Brody and the Black Presence in German Film Before 1945 - Tobias Nagl
Narrating "Race" in 1950s' West Germany: The Phenomenon of the Toxi Films - Heide Fehrenbach - Assoc. Professor
Will Everything Be Fine? Anti-Racist Practice in Recent German Cinema -
Writing Diasporic Identity: Afro-German Literature since 1985 - Leroy T. Hopkins Jr.
The Souls of Black Volk: Contradiction? Oxymoron? - Anne V. Adams

About the Author

Anne V. Adams is Professor Emerita in Africana Studies and Comparative Literature at Cornell University. She served for five years as Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Memorial Centre for Pan African Culture in Accra, Ghana. A former President of the African Literature Association (ALA), her research and publications focus on gender in African Diaspora Literatures and include (co-ed) Ngambika and Essays in Honour of Ama Ata Aidoo At 70: A Reader in Cultural Studies.

Reviews

[T]his anthology advances our understanding of exclusionary practices and the history of institutionalized biological racism in modern Germany. It also pays tribute to the growing corpus of complex and challenging texts and films produced by Afro-Germans and to the degree to which the community has become networked and vocal in significant ways.
*RESEARCH IN AFRICAN LITERATURES, Winter 2008*

Not So Plain as Black and White will contribute in significant ways to the emerging field of Afro-German Studies and will be important as well for German Studies, Africana Studies, and Cultural Studies in general.
*Sara Friedrichsmeyer, professor of German, University of Cincinnati*