In the volume “Critique of Racism and Forms of Resistance,” edited by Karim Fereidooni and Meral El, 53 contributions analyze racist phenomena and forms of resistance in various nation-states. The aim of the book, according to the editors in the preface, is to highlight the interdependence that exists between (inter)national relations of hegemony and subalternity. Different manifestations of racism in specific national contexts should be understood as part of cross-national racist mechanisms. The anthology will not only examine these transnational mechanisms and their national specifics; it will simultaneously analyze national and transnational forms of resistance. Specifically, the nation states of…
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The Understanding Slavery Initiative is a project in the United Kingdom that seeks to promote, in collaboration with archives and museum collections, quality and quantity of learning and teaching about transatlantic slavery. Within the last few years, the organization has collaborated with different museums, developed various teaching methods and implemented creative teaching units, especially in schools. The focus of the initiative’s work is to help people understand that the history of transatlantic human trafficking and its effects in the present do not only affect individual groups of people or specific nations. Instead, attention should be drawn to the global and…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPDpcYEdiOg Der Videoclip “White Fragility – A workplace training video“ mit Francesca Fiorentini, veröffentlicht vom Nachrichtensender “AJ+”, ist eine satirische Anleitung, die sich der Problemstellung widmet: „How to stop white defensiveness about racism.“ Der Clip ist einem klassischen Training-Video nachempfunden und untertitelt: “Racism in the workplace: What you can do to protect your white employees from hearing about it.“ Dem Inhalt des Videos liegen Alltagserfahrungen von People of Color und das soziologische Konzept weißer Fragilität zugrunde, demzufolge bereits geringe Konfrontation mit dem Thema Rassismus starke emotionale Abwehrreaktionen bei Menschen, die Rassismus ausüben, hervorruft. Aufgegriffen werden zum Beispiel die Themen “Hairpolitics“…
The book describes the life and persecution of Sinti and Roma during the Nazi era and the failure to make reparations in the FRG from the perspective of the daughter of a survivor. Anita Awosusi is a German sintezza, author, civil rights activist and artist. “Our Father” is the story she wrote of Hermann Weiß, a violin maker from Karlsruhe. He was registered as a “Gypsy” by Nazis at the age of 15 and deported to the ghettos and concentration camps in Poland. After surviving forced labor in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, he was “made German again” by the SS…
The latest work of the Senegalese rapper Didier Awadi “Ma Révolution” is also a political album. The individual titles address and criticize current political and social problems on the African continent that are regularly associated with European interventions. Album titles such as “Coup d’Etat Démocratique”(“Democratic Coup”), “Génération Consciente” (“Responsible Generation”) or “Ce qu’ils disent” (“What They Say”), some of which contain elements of reggae or were created in collaboration with Tyronne Downie, the pianist of Bob Marley’s Wailers, deal with the regular coups in the region, NATO’s intervention and hypocritical development aid discourses of the “international community”. “With elements of…
For the first time, the documentary film “The Wrong Word” by Melanie Spitta and Katrin Seybold presents the persecution and murder of German Sint_ezza during the National Socialist era in a coherent way from the perspective of the persecuted and their descendants. Important components of the evidence are unpublished police files, materials of the so-called race researchers, and documents of the total capture and registration. In respectful and dignified images, the film bears witness to the survived genocide, to the transmission of racism, ignorance and violence of white-German society after 1945 until the 1980s. The film has a wonderful and…
The autobiographical work of Emmanuel Mbolela is the precise and at the same time richly pictorial story of his flight from Congo to the Netherlands. “My way from Congo to Europe is an impressive testimony of political violence and the fatal consequences of EU migration policy, but also of resistance and the dignity of human beings. In his autobiographical narrative, Emmanuel Mbolela writes about his political activity in Congo and the brutal repression of state security organs that forced him into emigration. He reports in an impressive way about the violence and exploitation during the flight, while he repeatedly comes…
[vimeo id=”77952994″] In her performance”World without Borders”, the artist Julia Friese processes the events surrounding a denial of entry visas for the artist collective “Fasokele” from Burkina Faso to Germany. “Fasokele” should have come to Germany in 2013 for a three-month campaign tour. The visas were denied by the German embassy in Ouagadougou with absurd arguments, as afrique-europe-interact reports. The play “World Without Borders,” which addresses these events, was performed at Kampnagel Theater Hamburg in July 2013.
The American Indian Movement (AIM) is the largest self-organization of Native Americans in the United States. It is a spiritual movement demanding that the U.S. recognize Native sovereignty without compromise. AIM has many local chapters in different cities and regions. Local chapters often have their own websites, such as AIM Central Texas, which also has a weekly radio show.
https://vimeo.com/148883418 Im Jahr 2015 hielt die IniRromnja in der Akademie des Jüdischen Museums in Berlin eine performative Lesung mit Filmbeiträgen zu Ehren Melanie Spittas ab. “Melanie Spitta war eine wegbereitende Filmemacherin und Akteurin der Sintezza- und Romnja -Bewegung. In ihren Filmen und Texten hat sie sich mit dem nationalsozialistischen Genozid an den Rroma und Sinti sowie mit der fehlenden Anerkennung und Entschädigung nach 1945 beschäftigt. Bis in die 1980er Jahre setzte sie sich politisch mit Erinnerungspolitiken und mit Rassismus und Sexismus in der Bundesrepublik nach dem Pharrajmos (Genozid an Rrom*nja) auseinander.“ IniRromnja über Melanie Spitta auf Vimeo.Melanie Spitta drehte gemeinsam…
Chinua Achebe is considered one of the preeminent English-language writers and an icon of English-language African literature. He is the founder of modern Nigerian literature and reached an international audience with the genre of African fiction. To mark the 50th anniversary of the publication of his famous novella “Things Fall Apart,” Everyman published the work, along with the “novellas No Longer at Ease” and “Arrow of God,” under the title “African Trilogy.” In “Things Fall Apart” (German: “Okonkwo oder Das Alte stürzt”) Chinua Achebe uses the example of the person Okonkwo to tell how a social system (of the Igbo)…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBA04uNJHKg Hildegard Lagrenne war eine Überlebende des Porajmos und Mitarbeiterin beim Zentralrat Deutscher Sinti und Roma sowie im Dokumentations- und Kulturzentrum des Zentralrats in Heidelberg. Zeit ihre Lebens trat Hildegard Lagrenne für die Bekämpfung von Rassismus gegen Sint_ezza und Rrom_nja ein. Durch ihre öffentliche Bildungs- und Aufklärungsarbeit sowie ihre Veröffentlichungen wurde sie zu einer bekannten Persönlichkeit in der Bürgerrechtsbewegung der deutschen Sint_ezza und Rrom_nja und prägte die Bewegung entscheidend mit. Eines der wenigen öffentlichen historischen Dokumente, die Hildegard Lagrenne zeigen, ist diese kurze und einprägsame Videosequenz, auf die Romaniphen auf ihrer Website verweisen. Hier erzählt die Bürgerrechtlerin und Überlebende eines…