%0 Book
%A Marion Kraft
%D 2020
%C Oxford, United Kingdom
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%@ 2297-2854
%@ 9781788746892
%T Children of the Liberation
%B Transatlantic Experiences and Perspectives of Black Germans of the Post-War Generation
%R 10.3726/b14776
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1063496
%X This volume was originally published in German in 2015, commemorating the end of World War II seventy years earlier and acknowledging the contribution of African American soldiers to Germany’s liberation from fascist rule. Using an interdisciplinary approach, it collects the voices of some of the descendants of these World War II heroes. In this volume, Black Germans of this post-war generation relate and analyse their experiences from various perspectives. Historical, political and research essays alongside life writing, interviews and literary texts form a kaleidoscope through which a new perspective on an almost forgotten part of German history and US American–German relationships is conveyed. The collection explores causes and consequences of racism in the past and in the present as well as developing strategies for achieving positive changes.
%K Historical and Present Aspects of Black Life in Germany, Life Writing/Witnessed History, Memory and Post-Memory, Reflections on “Race” and Rejections, Black German Adoptees in the U.S., Identity in African American-German Biographies, Social Realities of Black Germans, Inclusion and Human Rights, African Diaspora, Black German Movements
%G English