Moni Tano is a video blog that aims to empower Africans and the African diaspora worldwide through introspections from a postcolonial perspective. The specific point of view is that of a Black woman experiencing her Black consciousness in different contexts and geographical spaces. The blog is described by its operators as part of the necessary everyday practice of strengthening African and Black identities through cultural, historical, and personal re-appropriation. The operators themselves say about the content of the video blog: “From black history to modern day manifestations of an internalized racial oppression, Moni Tano explores topics speaking to us, black…
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Karola Fings’ volume precisely and comprehensibly traces the history of Sint_ezza and Rromn_ja in Germany. It is limited to essential or exemplary processes and events. The aim of the volume is to contribute to a differentiated view of the history and present of the Sint_ezza and Rromn_ja minority. The author also pays special attention to the social processes, attributions, and practices of exclusion that emanate from the majority society and began, among other things, with the development of nation states and the bourgeois subject in Europe. The author consciously tries to reflect in her work the fact that her…
Initiative Pogrom 91 is a website that functions as an archive documenting the racist pogrom in Hoyerswerda and aims to promote a critical examination of the facts. At the same time, an exchange forum is to be created for emancipatory groups and individuals. Only 5 years ago, the former mayor of the city had publicly confirmed the local consensus of collective repression with his statement “We Hoyerswerda residents reserve the memory of these 15 years for ourselves”, according to the operators of the initiative. The website explicitly aims to provide space for opinion and experience to those affected by…
With the blog act against colonialism, the initiators want to inform about German colonial history and call for a critical approach to the origin and production of white knowledge, which is often presented as neutral and objective at the Humboldt University: “Knowledge in German education is for the most part re_produced by whites[*] for whites. Most of the lecturers are white, the curricula are designed by whites, the texts we read are written by white authors, and so on. Despite or because of this dominance, whiteness is hardly discussed in Germany. Through this non-naming, it permeates social, political and…
Tania Canas from the Australian organization RISE has published a list of 10 points for artists who want to create projects with refugees. Canas emphasizes that artists would repeatedly display a limited understanding of their own biases and privileges. A German translation of their recommendations can be found on the Kultur öffnet Welten website: 1. process, not product. We are not a resource that can be fed into your next project. You may be talented in your particular art, but don’t think that automatically leads to an ethical, responsible, and self-directed process. Deal with the developmental dynamics of groups, but…
In the documentary by Katrin Seybold and Melanie Spitta, two young Sintezza talk about their lives, about school and their work, and about the difficulty of asserting lived traditions to their environment. Attributions that Sint_ezza experience from the majority society are taken up in the film and discussed from an affected person’s perspective. Schimpft uns nicht Zigeuner | Katrin Seybold, Melanie Spitta | BRD | 1980 | German | short documentary.
In the summer of 2015, the Institute for Postcolonial Studies was founded at the University of Frankfurt by students, researchers and interested parties of the “Frankfurt Research Center for Postcolonial Studies” (FRCPS). The institution sees itself as a continuation and further development of the FRCPS, whose main task was to anchor postcolonial theory in the higher education landscape and to bring critical theories that are not Eurocentric into focus. With the departure of Prof. Dr. Nikita Dhawan, the FRCPS came to its formal end. On the agenda of the “Institute for Postcolonial Studies” is now the implementation of reading circles,…
https://vimeo.com/132930560 “When Neo wakes up one morning, she has no clue this is the day she will be meeting Superman.” Meeting Superman ist ein außergewöhnlicher, kraftvoller und inspirierender Kurzfilm von Mokoari Street Productions über eine ungewöhnliche Begegnung in den Straßen von Berlin. Das Werk aus dem Jahr 2015 kann hier angeschaut werden. Meeting Superman | Hannah Stockmann| 2015 | Deutschland | Deutsch | Kurzfilm | 12 min.
“Decolonizing the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature” is the work of noted Kenyan author and postcolonialism theorist Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o. In his collection of essays, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o addresses language and its constitutive role in national cultures, historical processes, and identity formation. He argues for Lingusite decolonization. The volume is divided into four essays, which repeatedly include parts from lectures given by the cultural scientist:”The Language of African Literature,” “The Language of African Theatre,” “The Language of African Fiction,” and “The Quest for Relevance .” His central thesis is that of language as communication and as…
In April 2016, the Standing Rock Sioux Nation called for support of all indigenous peoples against the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). DAPL threatens the water system of millions along the Missouri, but especially Standing Rock. Since September 2016, hundreds of Nations sent letters of support and thousands joined the gathering at Sacred Stone Camp. Despite illegal tactics, misinformation by media, attacks by corporate mercenaries and arrests by police, the assembly decided to remain calm and not allow the desecration. They are building a completely self-sustaining city with renewable, “earth friendly” energy for all Nations. Standing Rock Sioux Nation is asking…
The subject of the anthology “Raus Rein” by Marion Hulverscheidt and Hendrik Dorgathen is the colonial school in Witzenhausen. The institution was founded in 1898 and was unique in Germany. Witzenhausen served to prepare students for life in the colonies. Based on historical documents, the authors create different text-image combinations in the form of a fictional narrative. Through stories, drawings, interviews, comics and photos, the book takes a critical look at a previously unknown and momentous chapter of German colonial history. Marion Hulverscheidt, Hendrik Dorgathen (eds.) 2016: Raus Rein. Texts and comics about the history of the former colonial school…
In “Distant Connections,” women of different social positionings explore the questions of how racism, anti-Semitism, and classism determine women’s interactions with one another and how they shape their political theorizing and practice. “Distant Connections” contains texts that talk about experiences of exclusion, ways to support each other, and possibilities for personal and political alliances. Ika Hügel, Chris Lange, May Ayim et al. (eds.) 1999: Entfernte Verbindungen. Racism, anti-Semitism, class oppression. Berlin: Orlanda.