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Black German: An Afro-German Life in the Twentieth Century
Thoedor Michael
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Description for Black German: An Afro-German Life in the Twentieth Century
Paperback. This is a unique and fascinating autobiography which tells the story of twentieth-century Germany and its black population through the eyes of a member of the first black German community, Theodor Michael. Translator(s): Rosenhaft, Eve. Num Pages: 216 pages, 29, 29 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 147. .
This is the first English translation of an important document in the history of the black presence in Germany and Europe: the autobiography of Theodor Michael. Theodor Michael is among the few surviving members of the first generation of ‘Afro-Germans’: Born in Germany in 1925 to a Cameroonian father and a German mother, he grew up in Berlin in the last days of the Weimar Republic. As a child and teenager he worked in circuses and films and experienced the tightening knot of racial discrimination under the Nazis in the years before the Second World War. He survived the ... Read more
This is the first English translation of an important document in the history of the black presence in Germany and Europe: the autobiography of Theodor Michael. Theodor Michael is among the few surviving members of the first generation of ‘Afro-Germans’: Born in Germany in 1925 to a Cameroonian father and a German mother, he grew up in Berlin in the last days of the Weimar Republic. As a child and teenager he worked in circuses and films and experienced the tightening knot of racial discrimination under the Nazis in the years before the Second World War. He survived the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781383117
SKU
V9781781383117
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99-50
About Thoedor Michael
Eve Rosenhaft is Professor of German Historical Studies, University of Liverpool.
Reviews for Black German: An Afro-German Life in the Twentieth Century
Reviews 'A wonderful book.' Sara Lennox Amherst, University of Massachusetts On the German edition of Black German (Deutsch Sein and Schwarz Dazu) by Theodor Michael: 'A treasure and a gift for German historiography.' The African Courier 'This sincere and perceptive autobiography shows that Vergangenheitsbewältigung (coming to terms with one’s past) is an exercise on which more work has still to ... Read more