White Rebels in Black: German Appropriation of Black Popular Culture
by Priscilla D Layne
University of Michigan Press, 2018 Cloth: 978-0-472-13080-1 | eISBN: 978-0-472-12383-4 Library of Congress Classification PT149.B55 Dewey Decimal Classification 830.9896
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
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 Jürgen Massaquo, Theodor Michael, Günter 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 Köpsell.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Priscilla Layne is Associate Professor of German and Adjunct Assistant Professor of African and African American Diaspora Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
REVIEWS
Honorable Mention, MLA Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures
"In White Rebels in Black, Priscilla Layne breaks new ground for German studies bynhighlighting the centrality of Blackness for critical evaluations of postwar German cultural productions." —MLA Award Committee
— Modern Language Association, Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures
"White Rebels in Black is a must-read for scholars interested in Black German studies and in questions of diversity and social justice. It can serve as an appeal to Germanists studying any text to recognize and challenge patterns of othering and cultural appropriation. The diversity of texts within this book demonstrates that these are common tropes and that it is our task as scholars to expose and challenge the underlying stereotypes. Th e theme of masculinity is carried throughout and offers convincing theoretical engagement with an oft en- overlooked aspect of intersectionality. All chapters can also serve as valuable resources for undergraduate and graduate classes in which the specific texts are discussed."
—Feminist German Studies
— Nicole Coleman, Feminist German Studies
"White Rebels in Black adds very important new accents and dimensions to the scholarship that others, including Moritz Ege, have begun to undertake on German appropriation of Black culture since the Second World War. ... Layne's book is a wonderful contribution to transnational German Studies. It is written in lucid prose and will be valuable reading for scholars as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students."
--- Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies
— Andrew Wright Hurley, Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies
"This study brings together two of these strands—mainstream German literature’s discourse about Africans and black culture since 1945 on the one hand, and contemporary Afro-German writing on the other, complemented by a third strand, the comparative analysis of African-American experiences of racism and stereotype in post-war and contemporary German culture and society... this is a very worthwhile book to read for those interested in this interdisciplinary field." - Dirk Gottsche, Monatshefte
— Dirk Gottsche, Monatshefte
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Contents
Introduction
1. Who’s Afraid of the Black Cook?
2. Waiting for My Band
3. Of Blues and Blue Jeans: American Dreams in the East
4. Two Black Boys Look at the White Boy
5. The Future Is Unwritten
Conclusion
Notes
Filmography
Bibliography
Index
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White Rebels in Black: German Appropriation of Black Popular Culture
by Priscilla D Layne
University of Michigan Press, 2018 Cloth: 978-0-472-13080-1 eISBN: 978-0-472-12383-4
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 Jürgen Massaquo, Theodor Michael, Günter 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 Köpsell.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Priscilla Layne is Associate Professor of German and Adjunct Assistant Professor of African and African American Diaspora Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
REVIEWS
Honorable Mention, MLA Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures
"In White Rebels in Black, Priscilla Layne breaks new ground for German studies bynhighlighting the centrality of Blackness for critical evaluations of postwar German cultural productions." —MLA Award Committee
— Modern Language Association, Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures
"White Rebels in Black is a must-read for scholars interested in Black German studies and in questions of diversity and social justice. It can serve as an appeal to Germanists studying any text to recognize and challenge patterns of othering and cultural appropriation. The diversity of texts within this book demonstrates that these are common tropes and that it is our task as scholars to expose and challenge the underlying stereotypes. Th e theme of masculinity is carried throughout and offers convincing theoretical engagement with an oft en- overlooked aspect of intersectionality. All chapters can also serve as valuable resources for undergraduate and graduate classes in which the specific texts are discussed."
—Feminist German Studies
— Nicole Coleman, Feminist German Studies
"White Rebels in Black adds very important new accents and dimensions to the scholarship that others, including Moritz Ege, have begun to undertake on German appropriation of Black culture since the Second World War. ... Layne's book is a wonderful contribution to transnational German Studies. It is written in lucid prose and will be valuable reading for scholars as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students."
--- Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies
— Andrew Wright Hurley, Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies
"This study brings together two of these strands—mainstream German literature’s discourse about Africans and black culture since 1945 on the one hand, and contemporary Afro-German writing on the other, complemented by a third strand, the comparative analysis of African-American experiences of racism and stereotype in post-war and contemporary German culture and society... this is a very worthwhile book to read for those interested in this interdisciplinary field." - Dirk Gottsche, Monatshefte
— Dirk Gottsche, Monatshefte
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Contents
Introduction
1. Who’s Afraid of the Black Cook?
2. Waiting for My Band
3. Of Blues and Blue Jeans: American Dreams in the East
4. Two Black Boys Look at the White Boy
5. The Future Is Unwritten
Conclusion
Notes
Filmography
Bibliography
Index
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