“The central concern of this book is to raise awareness of the fact that racism and language are closely linked. Many terms in use today have a history of colonialist, racist meanings that are still expressed today. The aim of the book is to show how terms relating to Africa are used in a racist way in the broadest sense and what concepts are conveyed by their use. The book is meant to make people think who think they have been speaking reflectively for a long time. Many are not aware that terms like ‘half-breed’, ‘black continent’, ‘primitive’ or ‘chief’ have a discriminatory content. In the main body of the book, one can look up over 30 colonial and racialized terms used to refer to Africa and Black people. Supplementary contributions discuss the interaction of racism and language, and an exemplary analysis of a newspaper article demonstrates how racist discourse manifests itself linguistically even independently of racist terms. The book is suitable for political education and academia and aims to reach not only people in multiplier positions, such as teachers, textbook authors, publishers, scholars, and public institutions.” (Publisher’s Announcement)
Susan Arndt, Antje Hornscheidt (eds.) 2009: Africa and the German Language. A critical reference work. Münster: Unrast
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