| White Rebels in Black: German Appropriation of Black Popular Culture Contributor(s): Layne, Priscilla Dionne (Author) |
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ISBN: 0472130803 ISBN-13: 9780472130801 Publisher: University of Michigan Press OUR PRICE: $79.15 Product Type: Hardcover Published: March 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Germany - Literary Criticism | European - German - Social Science | Black Studies (global) |
| Dewey: 830.989 |
| LCCN: 2017053881 |
| Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (1.20 lbs) 272 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Germany - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Chronological Period - 1950-1999 - Chronological Period - 21st Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Analyzing literary texts and films, White Rebels in Black shows how German authors have since the 1950s appropriated black popular culture, particularly music, to distance themselves from the legacy of Nazi Germany, authoritarianism, and racism, and how such appropriation changes over time. Priscilla Layne offers a critique of how blackness came to symbolize a positive escape from the hegemonic masculinity of postwar Germany, and how black identities have been represented as separate from, and in opposition to, German identity, foreclosing the possibility of being both black and German. Citing four autobiographies published by black German authors Hans J rgen Massaquo, Theodor Michael, G nter Kaufmann, and Charly Graf, Layne considers how black German men have related to hegemonic masculinity since Nazi Germany, and concludes with a discussion on the work of black German poet, Philipp Khabo K psell. |