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Uniform Title Farbe bekennen. English.
Title Showing our colors : Afro-German women speak out / edited by May Opitz, Katharina Oguntoye & Dagmar Schultz ; with a foreword by Audre Lorde ; translated by Anne V. Adams, in cooperation with Tina Campt, May Opitz & Dagmar Schultz.

Publication Info. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [1992]
©1992

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  305.48896 F219S    Check Shelf
Description xxv, 239 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Contents Precolonial images of Africa, colonialism, and fascism -- The Germans in the Colonies -- African and Afro-German women in the Weimar Republic and under National Socialism -- Our father was Cameroonian, our mother, East Prussian, we are mulattoes / Doris Reiprich and Erika Ngambi Ul Kuo -- An "occupation baby" in postwar Germany / Helga Emde -- "Aren't you glad you can stay here?" / Astrid Berger -- "Mirror the invisible, play the forgotten" / Miriam Goldschmidt -- Three Afro-German women in conversation with Dagmar Schultz / Laura Baum, Katharina Oguntoye, May Optiz[sic] -- "What makes me so different in the eyes of others?" / Ellen Wiedenroth -- Old Europe meets up with itself in a different place / Corinna N. -- "All of a sudden, I knew what I wanted" / Angelika Eisenbrandt -- "I do the same things that others do" / Julia Berger -- Mother: Afro-German, Father: Ghanaian / Abena Adomako -- The break / May Optiz[sic] -- What I've always wanted to tell you / Katharina Oguntoye -- "I never wanted to write, I just couldn't help myself" / Raya Lubinetzki.
Note Translation of: Farbe bekennen.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page 238).
Subject Women, Black -- Germany -- History.
Black people -- Germany -- History.
Race discrimination -- Germany.
Germany -- Race relations.
Added Author Ayim, May, 1960-1996.
Oguntoye, Katharina.
Schultz, Dagmar.
ISBN 0870237594 cloth alkaline paper $40.00
0870237608 paperback alkaline paper $13.95
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