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Black Germany This ground-breaking history traces the development of Germany’s black community, from its origins in colonial Africa to its decimation bytheNazisduringWorldWarTwo.RobbieAitkenandEveRosenhaft followthecareersofAfricansarrivingfromthecolonies,examiningwhy andwheretheysettled,theirworkinglivesandtheirpoliticalactivities, and giving unprecedented attention to gender, sexuality and the chal- lenges of ‘mixed marriage’. Addressing the networks through which individuals constituted community, Aitken and Rosenhaft explore the ways in which these relationships spread beyond ties of kinship and birthplacetoconstitutecommunitiesas‘black’.Thestudyalsofollows a number of its protagonists to France and back to Africa, providing new insights into the roots of Francophone black consciousness and post-colonialmemory.Includinganin-depthaccountoftheimpactof Nazismanditsaftermath,thisbookoffersafreshcriticalperspectiveon narrativesof‘race’inGermanhistory. robbie aitken is a Senior Lecturer in Imperial History at Sheffield HallamUniversity. eve rosenhaft is Professor of German Historical Studies at the UniversityofLiverpool. Black Germany The Making and Unmaking of a Diaspora Community, 1884–1960 Robbie Aitken and Eve Rosenhaft UniversityPrintingHouse,CambridgeCB28BS,UnitedKingdom PublishedintheUnitedStatesofAmericabyCambridgeUniversityPress,NewYork CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity'smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learningandresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781107041363 ©RobbieAitkenandEveRosenhaft2013 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2013 PrintedintheUnitedKingdombyClays,StIvesplc AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary LibraryofCongressCataloguinginPublicationdata Aitken,RobbieJohnMacvicar. BlackGermany:themakingandunmakingofadiasporacommunity, 1884–1960/RobbieAitkenandEveRosenhaft. p. cm. Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN978-1-107-04136-3(Hardback) 1. Blacks–Germany–History. 2. Blacks–Germany–Socialconditions. 3. Cameroonians–Germany–History.4. Africans–Germany–History. 5. Germany–Racerelations–History. 6. Germany–Emigrationand immigration. 7. Germany–Colonies–Africa–Emigrationandimmigration. 8. Cameroon–Emigrationandimmigration. I.Rosenhaft,Eve,1951– II. Title. DD78.B55A482013 305.896043–dc23 2013009484 ISBN978-1-107-04136-3Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracyof URLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication, anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. For Ella, Alec and Daniel – cosmopolitans all Contents List of illustrations page viii List of maps x Acknowledgements xi List of abbreviations xiv Introduction 1 1 The first generation: from presenceto community 22 2 ShouldI stay and can I go? Statusand mobility in the institutional net 67 3 Settling down: marriageand family 88 4 Surviving in Germany: work, welfare and community 119 5 Problem men and exemplary women? Gender, class and ‘race’ 161 6 Practising diaspora – politics 1918–1933 194 7 Underthe shadow ofNational Socialism 231 8 Refuge France? 279 Epilogue 316 Bibliography 329 Index 354 vii Illustrations 1.1 ‘15Degrees below Zero’,Kladderadatsch,29 January 1888 Publicdomain page 40 1.2 Duala visiting EduardScheve in Berlin,1902 Diakoniegemeinschaft Bethel e.V., with permission 46 1.3 Imageof Tongo reproduced inVerhandlungen der Berliner Gesellschaftfür Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte,23(1891),280–2 Publicdomain 55 2.1 Identity papers, Gottlieb Kala Kinger,1922 Centre desArchives d’Outre-Mer, Aix-en-Provence, FR ANOM1AFFPOL 613/1071,all rights reserved 76 2.2 Thomas MangaAkwa,date unknown VictorDicka Akwa, Douala, with permission 85 4.1 The‘Indian’Bar, Hamburg, c.1925 Bildarchiv Hamburg, AA 1663,with permission 123 4.2 Colonial trader Mandenga Diek, 1920 Centre desArchives d’Outre-Mer, Aix-en-Provence, FR ANOM1AFFPOL 614/02, allrights reserved 136 5.1 ‘Incolonial days they used to run aroundin figleaves; nowthey’re better dressed than weare!’,Der WahreJakob, 14 September 1929 Everyeffort has been madeto trace the copyright holder. 170 5.2 Gregor Kotto,publicity postcard, around1929 Collection of Robbie Aitken 171 5.3 A souvenirmontageforHeinrich Eugen Ndine, 1890 Stadtarchiv Langenau, with permission 174 5.4 BerthaEbumbu Mbengeand Esther Sike Bilé, Berlin 1901 Diakoniegemeinschaft Bethel e.V., with permission 180 5.5 MariaMandessi Bell at the inauguration ofPastor Wißtoffin Eberswalde, 1912 Evangelisch-Freikirchliche Gemeinde Eberswalde, withpermission 187 viii

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