The anthology “Kinder der Befreiung” (Children of Liberation) by Marion Kraft sheds light on a hitherto little-noticed chapter of the multifaceted history of Black Germans and Black people in Germany: “Seventy years after the end of World War II, this volume honors the contributions African American soldiers made to Germany’s liberation from fascism and brings together voices of Black Germans of the postwar generation.” Publisher description Voices from both sides of the Atlantic are brought together, opening new perspectives on an almost forgotten part of German and U.S. history and relations. Further, the book looks at the causes and effects…
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The youth magazine Fluter of the Federal Agency for Civic Education has published an issue (No. 59) with the title topic ” Africa”. The issue contains several interesting articles that deal in a differentiated way with current social issues, (global) political relations, recent developments, ongoing power relations and popular culture in African countries, e.g. Kenya, Nigeria or Malawi. Unfortunately, Africans themselves hardly have a say in the articles. Instead, the text contributions seem to be written exclusively by (white) Europeans. Despite many articles that are worth reading, it is therefore questionable to what extent an intended confrontation with (post)colonial structures…
Native Hope is a project and network that specifically seeks to assist Native Americans on “reservations.” It Works with other organizations to stop domestic violence and drug and alcohol abuse . In addition, Native Hope is concerned with improving education, family health , and preserving indigenous culture and identity.
Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society is a peer-reviewed, open access scholarly journal committed to decolonization in scholarship, practice, and activism-within and, more importantly, beyond and against the university enterprise.
With her famous collection of essays, “Playing in the Dark,” author and first Black Nobel laureate Toni Morrison laid a milestone in critical racism studies and academic “Studies of Critical Whiteness.” The volume contains the three essays “Black Matters,” “Swarming from the Shadows,” and “Disturbing Nurses and the Kindness of Sharks.” In these, Morrison engages with classics of white U.S. literature and examines how and to what extent black people are represented. She finally states the “racial question” as a metaphor. Using these, white authors constructed their selves and established racialized subject positions, simultaneously retreating to an unmarked and uninvolved…
Apache Stronghold is an Apache campaign to save the sacred places of Oak Flat and Apache Leap from the international mining company Resolution Copper. It is a fight for human rights, for religious freedom, and for the preservation of Apache heritage and identity. These sacred places to Apache, along with many others, were included in a U.S. Senate deal with foreign corporations without consulting Native American communities. Mining would change or destroy these places forever.
With her book “Anleitung zum Schwarz sein” Anne Chebu offers a competent guide for young Black Germans who want to become aware of and deal with their Black identity and their social subject status. In addition to topics such as language, identity, racism, self-image, everyday culture, and media, the author provides an overview of the Black German community and its history. “Instructions for Being Black” is not only suitable reading for Black young people. White relatives or teachers will also find suggestions in the book to accompany and support Black youth in a phase of awareness and empowerment and to…
Unsettling America is a network for spiritual, mental, psychological and territorial decolonization. It seeks freedom, sovereignty and self-determination for indigenous communities and societies in the Americas. The network has guidelines for allies, solidarity partners and volunteers. It opposes Eurocentric practices and methods and provides training to advance appropriate action. “Our movement needs to realize that the struggles of Native peoples are issues that should be of major concern to all who consider themselves opponents of oppression. Indigenous peoples have always engaged in struggles against the state, industrial expansionism, and corporate exploitation. They are the only communities that have maintained a…
The Decolonizing Yoga website grew out of protests against the Yoga Journal Conference that was to be held at the Hyatt Hotel in San Francisco in 2013. Employees of the hotel, as well as community-based projects and initiatives, conducted an ongoing boycott of the Hyatt Hotel to protest employee working conditions. Part of the protest was a community yoga exercise held during a rally in front of the hotel. As a result, several hundred people joined the protest and pledged not to actively support or attend the Yoga Journal Conference. After the boycott ended with negotiated talks, the Decolonizing Yoga…
machtWORTE! is a picture book for children that questions the normalities of our everyday language in a funny and original way. From A to Z, the book invites you to philosophize about the world and ask yourself: What does the clock actually do on vacation and how does half order fit into life? In the book, words and images are combined to match each letter of the alphabet, allowing familiar chains of associations to be broken and entirely new ideas and ways of thinking to be developed. In this way, it becomes possible to rethink one’s own use of language…
The blog Stop! Talking. talks about life in Berlin and describes Afro-European experiences and perspectives on prevailing conditions. Main topics of the author are politics, racism, sexism, academy and other matters. (Current) Blog posts address reverse racism, fatness, intersectionality, and why exclusionary one-issue politics are dangerous.
“A woman who changed the world. Ben is disappointed when his grandfather only wants to show him an old bus in the museum. But then he listens spellbound to Rosa Parks’ story: In 1955, his grandfather sat next to Rosa Parks on this very bus when she refused to give up her seat for a white man. And this brave no should move the whole world! […] Rosa Park’s arrest was the catalyst for the emergence of the black civil rights movement in the U.S. led by Martin Luther King.” In his children’s book, Fabrizio Silei tells this important episode…