Subtitled “Remembering Black Movement History. Taking Stock and Developing Visions for the Future” was published in January 2016 – 30 years after the founding of the Initiative Black People in Germany – the volume Spiegelblicke.
The book features essays, portraits, analytical texts, storytelling and photo reports by various authors, contemporary witnesses and portrayed persons. It reflects views from several generations of Black Germans on racist structures, identity formation, exclusion mechanisms, and empowerment.
“The content is about Black people in the Nazi era, the history of colonialism and its reach into the present – for example in the education and legal system. Self-empowering interventions by parents, teachers, cultural workers or media makers and everyday stories of Black people in Germany. Topics such as racial profiling, the role of human rights and refugee activism will be discussed. With the question of what it means to be Black and Queer, intersectional perspectives are opened up.” Book description of the publisher
“Spiegelblicke” highlights developments, disputes, and definitional processes of recent years within the Black German Movement, creating an easily accessible work that is accessible to a broad audience.
Denise Bergold-Caldwell/Laura Digoh/Hadija Haruna-Oelker et al. (eds.) 2016: Spiegelblicke. Perspectives of Black Movement in Germany. Berlin: Orlanda.
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 is: http://www.links-lesen.de/article/978-3-944666-23-5