Afrodiasporic Identities in Germany : : Life-Stories of Millennial Women.
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| Superior document: | Kultur und Soziale Praxis Series |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag,, 2024. ©2024. |
| Year of Publication: | 2024 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Kultur und Soziale Praxis Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (269 pages) |
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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.