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Mobilizing black Germany afro-German WoMen and the Making of a transnational MoveMent tiffany n. florvil MOBILIZING BLACK GERMANY BLACK INTERNATIONALISM Edited by Keisha N. Blain and Quito Swan This series grapples with the international dimensions of the Black freedom struggle and the diverse ways people of African descent articulated global visions of freedom and forged transnational collaborations. A list of books in this series appears at the end of this book. BLACK INTERNATIONALISM MOBILIZING BLACK GERMANY AFRO-GERMAN WOMEN AND THE MAKING OF A TRANSNATIONAL MOVEMENT TIFFANY N. FLORVIL © 2020 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois All rights reserved Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Florvil, Tiffany Nicole, author. Title: Mobilizing Black Germany: Afro-German women and the making of a transnational movement / Tiffany N. Florvil. Description: Urbana: University of Illinois Press, [2020] | Series: Black internationalism | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Identifi rs: lccn 2020027486 (print) | lccn 2020027487 (ebook) | isbn 9780252043512 (cloth) | isbn 9780252085413 (paperback) | isbn 9780252052392 (ebook) Subjects: lcsh : Afrodeutsche Frauen. | Initiative Schwarze Menschen in Deutschland. | Women, Black—Political activity—Germany. | Women political activists—Germany. | Blacks—Political activity—Germany. | Feminism—Germany. | Social movements—Germany. | African diaspora. | Internationalism. Classificati n: lcc dd78 .b55 f55 2020 (print) | lcc dd78.b55 (ebook) | ddc 305.48/896043—dc23 lc record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020027486 lc ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020027487 For Glenda and Isaac with so much love and gratitude CONTENTS Acknowledgments ix Abbreviations xv Introduction: A “Black Coming Out” 1 1 Black German Women and Audre Lorde 25 2 The Making of a Modern Black German Movement 53 3 ADEFRA, Afrekete, and Black German Women’s Kinship 77 4 Black German Women’s Intellectual Activism and Transnational Crossings 104 5 Diasporic Spatial Politics with Black History Month in Berlin 130 6 Black German Feminist Solidarity and Black Internationalism 157 Epilogue: Black Lives Matter in Germany 178 Notes 183 Selected Bibliography 245 Index 263 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Whoa, it has been a long road to get to this point. But Mobilizing Black Germany has been worth it! Through the course of writing this book, I grew and learned so much about who I am as a researcher, thinker, scholar, activist, and friend. I also learned to balance familial obligations in new ways, though I still struggle a little on that front. But writing this book was not an easy task, and I would be lying if I didn’t mention that there were many times that I despaired. I suffered bouts of depression and sadness, which only exacerbated my anxieties and in- securities. But I persisted! I persevered because many of family (biological and chosen), friends, and colleagues lifted me up and made me feel like it was pos- sible to write this book. Here I offer my gratitude to those people who shaped, assisted, and loved me and this project throughout the years. I need to take my appreciation all the way back to my undergraduate years at Florida State University. I want to thank my undergraduate professors, es- pecially those in the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics and the Department of History. In Modern Languages and Linguistics, Birgit Maier- Katkin’s courses were my favorite because I developed my German voice and cultivated a critical literary eye. In History, Maxine Jones modeled what an African American historian could be and accomplish, and she was the only Af- rican American professor in the department. Dr. Jones pushed you to strive for excellence in her classes. Both of these professors shaped me and my academic pursuits.
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