“‘Africa is not poor, it is impoverished,’ says Mali’s former culture minister, Aminata Traoré. The rich countries of the North earn from this impoverishment and at the same time seal themselves off ever more strongly against migration from the South and East. Using the West African states of Mali, Burkina Faso and Côte d’Ivoire as examples, Berlin-based documentary filmmaker Leona Goldstein shows the political and economic backgrounds that drive people to migrate. The unequal relations between Africa and Europe are always taken into account. For example, the pressure of the world market on the price of cocoa leads to a…
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This short film about the reality in a camp for refugees in Brandenburg can be ordered here. A quote from the film by Alassa on Burkina Faso: “I think this is a secret prison, only we are not safe here. They take you, put you in jail, you have no right to go here, no right to go there, you have no right to work. They give you something to eat, then you eat, and then you sleep. Life can’t go on like this.” Le Heim | Leona Goldstein / Joseph Guitsuma | D | 2006 | multilingual with german.…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysJq0bsQ4Dw Dieser Film geht dem Leben und Tod von Oury Jalloh nach, der 2005 in einer Dessauer Polizeizelle auf einer feuerfesten Matratze verbrannte. Mehr Infos über den Film finden sich hier. Oury Jalloh | Martin Backhaus | D | 2008 | Englisch/Deutsch | Dokumentarfilm/Hybrid | 30 min.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yc32l3ReG8E Alberto Acosta sprach 2014 bei der Grünen Bildungswerkstatt im C3-Centrum für Internationale Entwicklung, Wien. “Buen Vivir” – Das Recht auf ein gutes Leben | Alberto Acosta | 2014 | Veranstaltungsdokumentation | Deutsch | 53 min.
Binyavanga Wainaina is one of the most important voices of young Africa. When the man of letters came out as gay in January, the news went around the world. Here he is portrayed by Tim Adams. Tim Adams 2014. Frankly. In: the Friday No. 1214
“Whose skin is actually the color of skin? Did racism already exist in ancient times? Is there a world without racism? In this book, Susan Arndt offers insights into the history, present and future of racism, into the knowledge that supports it and that which questions it. There are few people who like to be called racists. But it is by no means limited to small right-wing extremist circles. Rather, it lurks even in seemingly innocuous terms in our everyday language. Asking yourself what you know – and don’t know – about racism and what it has to do with…
“The book ‘Deutschland Schwarz Weiss’ (Germany Black and White) invites you to a self-knowledge and sensitization program that will demand a lot of you, that may shock and unsettle you, and at times even make you angry. But it is worth it. Only if you don’t close your eyes can you make an active contribution to ensuring that ideologies that despise humanity never again gain majority support in Germany.” (from the Author’s announcement) Noah Sow 2008: Germany Black and White. Everyday Racism. Munich: C. Bertelsmann If you don’t have a bookstore worth supporting near you, you can also buy the…
“Since the late 1990s, a discourse in educational science has developed about the need to conceptualize learning about National Socialism ‘differently’ in order to ‘reach’ migrant children, to teach them ‘the role of the Holocaust’ and to ‘integrate’ them. In doing so, a number of quasi-self-evident assumptions and presuppositions are expressed: ‘migrant children’ stand beyond Nazi memory, there is a German way of learning about National Socialism, ‘migrant’ and ‘non-migrant’ children are obviously distinguishable, etc. The discourse analysis, grounded in critical racism, elaborates the image of migrant children against the background of the general discourse on migrants and concludes that…
Astrid Messerschmidt 2008: Postcolonial Memory Processes in a Post-National Socialist Society – Dealing with Racism and Anti-Semitism. In: Periphery No. 109/110, pp. 42-60.
“A moving plea against racism. ManuEla Ritz went to school as a black girl in Saxony in the 1980s. Racist experiences were and are part of the reality of her life. At some point she realized how liberating it is to fight back. And so a reality of life became her profession.” (from the blurb). Manuela Ritz 2009: The Color of My Skin. The anti-racism trainer tells. Freiburg: Herder
“What would have happened to Africa if Hitler had won the war? The plans of the National Socialists were already ready for execution in 1940, it was even known at that time which police officer should be sent to which colony. The guidelines of racial policy had been worked out, the Colonial Blood Protection Law and the Law on Colonial Jurisdiction had been drafted….” (from the blurb) Kum’a Ndumbe III. 1993: What did Hitler want in Africa? Nazi planning for a fascist transformation Africa. Frankfurt: IKO
Frantz Fanon’s most famous work, often referred to as the “Third World Manifesto,” represents a central anti-colonial document. Jean-Paul Sartre writes in the preface: “Europeans, open this book, penetrate it! Have the courage to read it because it will shame you and because shame, as Marx said, is a revolutionary sentiment.” Frantz Fanon 1981 [Orig. 1961]: The Damned of the Earth. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp If you don’t have a bookstore worth supporting near you, you can also buy the book from the alternative non-profit online bookstore links-lesen.de, which supports political projects with the profits. The link to the book can be…