Hitler's Black Victims: The Historical Experiences of Afro-Germans, European Blacks, Africans, and African Americans in the Nazi Era

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Psychology Press, 2003 - History - 312 pages

Drawing on interviews with the black survivors of Nazi concentration camps and archival research in North America, Europe, and Africa, this book documents and analyzes the meaning of Nazism's racial policies towards people of African descent, specifically those born in Germany, England, France, the United States, and Africa, and the impact of that legacy on contemporary race relations in Germany, and more generally, in Europe. The book also specifically addresses the concerns of those surviving Afro-Germans who were victims of Nazism, but have not generally been included in or benefited from the compensation agreements that have been developed in recent years.

 

Contents

Black in Germany during the Nazi Era The Undiscovered Country
2
Look a Negro The Structuring of Block Marginality in Nazi Germany
21
Negrophobia and Nationalism An Epigrammatic History of AfricanGerman Encounters
43
Soldiers of Misfortune Children of Misfortune Black Troops and the Race Question in PreNazi Germany
69
Hitlers Black Dilemmas The Face and Fact of Blackness under Nazism
95
Made in America Perfected in Germany The Nazi Sterilization Program against Blacks
129
Behind the Wire Black Captives of Nazism
145
Imagining Blackness Negrophobia and the Nazi Propaganda Machine
179
Punched Out and Overrun Black Athleticism Meets Nazi Racism
215
Blacks in the Resistance Movement
231
European Disunion Racism and Antiracism in Contemporary Europe
247
Breathing while Black Linking the German Racial Past with the Present
259
Appendices
267
Notes
271
Bibliography
293
Index
305

Nigger Music Must Disappear Jazz and the Disruption of Cultural Purity
195

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About the author (2003)

Clarence Lusane is Assistant Professor at the School of International Service at American University in Washington, D.C.