Uticha Marmon’s story is about the siblings Hannes and Tammi and Salim from Syria, who gradually get to know each other and eventually become friends. The story is exciting and sensitively told and offers good starting points for discussing topics such as flight and asylum with children aged 8 and older. “Although Hannes and his sister Tammi aren’t always of one heart and soul, the siblings stick together when it counts. For example, when a ghost train is to be built for the school festival. Or when the baby bird suddenly appears in their lives and throws everything into turmoil.…
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How is it that in any given high school in the U.S., all Black youth sit at the same table in the cafeteria? That’s the question Beverly Daniel Tatum asks in his book, “Why are all the Black Kids sitting together in the Cafeteria?” For Latinx youth, “Asian-Pacifics,” and (in some regions) Native Americans, the same would be true. The phenomenon can also be observed in teachers’ rooms or in university cafeterias. Beverly Daniel Tatum, approaching the question of identification or situational segregation of racialized groups from a psycholgical perspective, states: “We do not know how to talk about our…
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“Being German and Black” to this is the impressive life story of Theodor Michael, who was born in Berlin in 1925 as the son of a Cameroonian and a German. “When his father came to Germany, Cameroon was still a German protectorate, a colony. Africans were received quite kindly in Germany. After World War I, the colonies were lost and the climate became much less friendly. It was felt that the blacks should not take jobs away from the Germans. But in the very popular Völkerschauen they were still accommodated, the ‘aliens of the species’ with the ‘negroid touch’. Even…
https://vimeo.com/110312571 “Nine Days on the Roof” dokumentiert den Refugee-Protest auf dem Dach der Gerhart-Hauptmann-Schule in Kreuzberg im Juni 2014, nachdem die Verantwortlichen des Bezirkes den Befehl zur gewaltsamen Räumung ausgesprochen hatten. Der Film zeigt außerdem die Belagerungs-Situation um die Gerhart-Hauptmann Schule. In Interviews und Gesprächen berichten Refugee-Aktivist_innen über die Hintergründe des Protests und formulieren ihre Forderungen. “On the 24th of June, 2014 the district of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg made an operation called ‘voluntary moving’. The idea was to empty the former Gerhart-Hauptmann school, occupied by refugees since December 2012. The procedure involved over 1000 police officers and blocked the complete neighbourhood. From…
“Earth of Earth first Child walks creatively unrestricted, intuitively toward the fulfillment of their Thought…” The author of the blog Black Trans Rebel says about herself: “I am a storyteller and I do so in various ways – particularly by creating comic books, moving images, poetry, music & fashion. My work is political. I share and process my experiences and realities as well as our stories through art in order to create visibility for our voices & perspectives which are cis-tematically silenced.” Artwork by Black Trans Rebel can be found on the website under the Artwork section, which is currently…
The website”Forgotten Biographies – Migrants and Black People under National Socialism” commemorates extraordinary lives: Turkish-Jewish and Arab people, African colonial migrants and and Black Germans who lived and worked in Germany during the National Socialist era, were discriminated against and disenfranchised, resisted or fell victim to National Socialist persecution. The selection of the biographies presented on the website as well as the extensive research work for the project were carried out together with young people from the award-winning youth culture project “Forgotten Biographies”. The exhibition resulting from the project, which is extremely worth seeing, can be borrowed here. “There were…
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“Decolonize Munich” is the catalog for the exhibition of the same name, which was on view at the Munich City Museum from October 2013 to February 2014. It documents the exhibition, which is unique for Germany, and deals with the questions: How have colonialism and racism inscribed themselves in Munich’s cityscape? How are traces of the colonial past dealt with in the city? In which places do postcolonial conflicts condense? What is debated, what is suppressed and concealed? Who may speak about the global history of the city? Whose stories are heard, whose life traces perceived? What does decolonizing mean…
With his international art projects , media artist Mansour Ciss Kanakassy from Dakar, Senegal, aims to bring about lasting change in relations between Africa and Europe through the communication of knowledge and innovation. One of Kanakasy’s best-known projects is the “Laboratoire de Déberlinisation”: “In reference to the notorious Congo Conference that took place in Berlin from November 1884 to February 1885 under the spearhead of the first German Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck, Berlin-based Senegalese artist Mansour Ciss Kanakassy created an art laboratory in 2001 called Laboratoire de Déberlinisation (laboratory of deberlinization). The laboratory is a conceptual framework for artistic action…
Nkechi Madubuko’s book is aimed at parents and caregivers of children affected by racism. Being able to offer “empowering” support and guidance as a contact person and confidant is closely linked to the children’s awareness of their experiences of racism. The author would like to give an overview of forms of dealing with children’s experiences of racism. Thus, on the one hand, the effect of racism on the self-worth of children is shown. On the other hand, ways are opened up to support children in various ways in finding sustainable ways of dealing with what they have experienced. The book…
Black Lives Matter is a movement and organization of primarily Black people with the goal of advancing the collective liberation of Black people. #BlackLivesMatter was founded in 2012 after Black teen Trayvon Martin was shot and killed in Florida by George Zimmerman – a volunteer with a private security guard. The latter was acquitted, while Trayvon Martin was posthumously held responsible for his murder. Black Lives Matter is a call to take responsibility and mobilize against racist violence against Black people. This goes far beyond a fight against racist police violence: “#BlackLivesMatter is working for a world where Black lives…