Afrodiasporic Identities in Germany : : Life-Stories of Millennial Women.

• Superior document: Kultur und Soziale Praxis Series
• Author: Wojczewski, Silvia.
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag,, 2024.; ©2024.
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Kultur und Soziale Praxis Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (269 pages)

Table of Contents

Cover -- Contents -- Abstract -- Resume -- Acknowledgements -- List of Figures -- 1. Introduction -- Vignette 1: Afroeuropeans conference, July 2019 -- Vignette 2: On life‐story sharing at the Afroeuropeans conference, Lisbon, July 2019 -- Problem statement and research questions -- Working with women -- Aminata Camara -- Maya B. -- Lafia T. -- Oxana Chi and Layla Zami -- Nina M. -- Life‐stories and anthropology: Between method and object of study -- Family ethnographies -- Positionality: Fieldwork 'at home' and 'on the move' -- On the move: Research during leisure travel and conferences -- Analytical approaches -- An intersectional approach to class, race and gender -- Kinship and diaspora -- The intimate dimension of diaspora and kinship -- The community dimension of kinship and the Black diaspora -- Outline of chapters -- Part I: Diasporic Generations -- 2. A history of African diaspora in Germany -- The beginning and end of the first African diaspora (1880-1945) -- African colonial subjects in Germany after World War I - the emergence of formal organisations -- People of African descent under the Nazi regime (1933-1945) -- African diaspora in West and East Germany (1945-1980) -- African migration and diaspora organisation in Germany since the 1950s -- American influences in Germany after World War II -- US military occupation after World War II -- The Civil Rights movement in Germany -- Afrodiasporic organisations and representation in Germany up to the turn of the millennium -- Conclusion -- 3. Growing up in Frankfurt -- Situating Frankfurt -- The US military presence in Frankfurt since 1945 -- Aminata Camara and Maya B. - Inspired by Black America -- Aminata - Between Frankfurt and Conakry as a child -- Maya - Living in a large Sierra Leonian family as a child -- Aminata C. and Maya B. - Teenage years and GI club culture in Frankfurt.

Disenchantment with GI culture -- Lafia T. - Growing up in a white and female world -- Lafia's early childhood in Heidelberg and Frankfurt -- Dealing with Senegal as a child -- Being a teenager out of place - experiencing racialisation -- Reluctance to deal with origins -- Conclusion -- 4. Family affairs - an intergenerational approach to diaspora -- Lamine Camara - Aminata's father -- Going back to Guinea with his family -- Forging a Black political consciousness and a West African identity -- Towards identifying as West African -- Father and daughter: Two practices of diaspora? -- 5. Racism and its intersection with class and gender -- Learning to deal with it - racism and racialisation as part of the everyday -- The eternal guest? -- Two generations, two experiences of Germany -- Conclusion to Part I -- Part II: Diasporic Travel -- 6. Maya B.: Building Afrodiasporic identity through travel -- Travelling in Afroeurope -- London 2017 - Relating to Afrodiasporic subculture in Europe as an adult -- Imagining Nigeria 2018 -- The entanglement of physical mobility with social class mobility -- The link between mobility and personal happiness -- Reality check: replacing a uniform imaginary with the complexity of reality -- Conclusion -- 7. Lafia T.: The long journey to her father's land -- Awakening interest in Senegal as a young adult -- Roots travel to Senegal - May 2018 -- The role of family in roots travel -- Motivation and experience with her father -- Filling the void of an interrupted transmission -- 8. Aminata Camara: Negotiating privilege, kinship and care in diasporic travel -- Forging kinship in Ghana - the importance of trust and care -- The pool accident - kinship put to the test in an existential crisis -- Acting respectable - caring and gendered division of labour -- Community -- Living with differences in a transnational family.

Conclusion to Part II -- Diasporic travel and kinship -- How class travels: experiencing a 'status paradox' -- Practising cultural skills during diasporic travels -- Part III: Diasporic Activism -- 9. Life storytelling as Black and feminist political practice -- Origins and themes of life stories in Black movements -- The Afro‐German movement in the 1980s -- Ika Hügel‐Marshall -- May Ayim -- Connecting lives through stories -- 10. Oxana Chi and Layla Zami: Connecting to global Blackness on the move -- Life stories in the lives and works of two artist‐activists -- Oxana Chi - the use of biographies in her work -- Layla - a cosmopolitan presentation of self -- Practising community digitally and in mobility -- Curating life stories at conferences -- Taking time off from performing - self‐care -- The Black activist self, couple and community in mobility -- Conclusion to Part III -- Conclusion -- Forging diasporic identities across generations -- Racialised middle classness - an intersectional approach -- 'Say their names' - listening to and sharing life stories -- Travelling to connect or to practise cultural identity -- Epilogue -- Bibliography.