Offensive, discursive, narrative: just three of the attributes that could be mentioned in the context of publicist Mely Kiyak’s weekly column on the website of Berlin’s Maxim Gorki Theater.
Browsing: Everyday Racism
The track by SXTN from Berlin is quite a lot at the same time – resistant, fresh, empowering, ironic, danceable and clever are just a few possible characteristics.
The term “Madgermanes” is used in Mozambique to refer to the approximately 15-20,000 people who worked as “contract workers” in the GDR between 1979 and 1991 – and were subsequently deported from the GDR, having been cheated out of most of their wages by Mozambique.
The clip of the youtube channel Newsbroke addresses, in the style of an explanatory video in a work context, everyday situations of non-white people and people of color.
Afrofuturist, filmmaker, and activist Amadine Gay’s documentary assembles the experiences of Francophone European Black women in the diaspora into a multi-layered collage about Blackness, art, racial discrimination, and the reappropriation of one’s own narrative.
This teaching module is aimed at students in grades 10 to 13 and can be used, for example, in the subjects of political education, German, history and ethics/religion.
The publication of the DGB-Jugend (youth organization of the German Trade Union Confederation) from 2012 shows central argumentation patterns of anti-Muslim racism, names corresponding counter-arguments/strategies and gives references to further literature. In addition, some anti-racist youth projects and initiatives are presented.
In her manuscript “Keine Angst, mein Herz” (Don’t be afraid, my heart), Berlin-based author and performer Olivia Wenzel tells of racist attributions and forms of resistance, of growing up and reflecting, of right-wing terror and images of fear between Brandenburg, New York, Berlin and Thuringia.
In this comic, Vina Yun addresses the story(s) of Korean migration to Vienna in the 1970s, using the example of her family. In different episodes, the lives and everyday experiences of two generations, mother and daughter, are told.
This satirical video by U.S. artist Ken Tanaka uses an everyday scene to tell about the quick-witted handling of racist attributions and colonial stereotypes.
Names of people from non-Western societies are regularly mispronounced, Europeanized and replaced, or even avoided in use, by members of the majority society in Germany, in Europe, and in the United States.
In the days of this year’s street carnival, a public campaign by the “Forum against Racism and Discrimination” draws attention to racist and transmisogynous carnival costumes in the subways on info screens.