Foreword to the English Language Edition
Audre Lorde
Preface to the English Language Edition
Editors’ Introduction
Part I. Racism, Sexism, and Precolonial Images of Africa in Germany
May Opitz
1. Precolonial Images of Africa, Colonialism, and Fascism
2. The Germans in the Colonies 19
3. African and Afro-German Women in the Weimar Republic and under National Socialism 41
4. Our Father was Cameroonian, Our Mother, East Prussian, We Are Mulattoes
Doris Reiprich and Erika Ngambi Ul Kuo
Part II. Afro-Germans after 1945: The So-Called Occupation Babies
May Opitz
5. An “Occupation Baby” in Postwar Germany
Helga Emde
6. “Aren't you glad you can stay here?”
Astrid Berger
7. “Mirror the invisible/Play the forgotten”
Miriam Goldschmidt
Part III. Racism Here and Now
May Opitz
8. Three Afro-German Women in Conversation with Dagmar Schultz
Laura Baum, Katharina Oguntoye, May Opitz
9. “What makes me so different in the eyes of others?”
Ellen Wiedenroth
10. Old Europe Meets Up with Itself in a Different Place
Corinna N.
11. “All of a sudden, I knew what I wanted”
Angelika Eisenbrandt
12. “I do the same things that others do”
Julia Berger 196
13. Mother: Afro-German I Father: Ghanaian
Abena Adomako
14. The Break
May Optiz 204
15. What I've Always Wanted to Tell You
Katharina Oguntoye
16. “I never wanted to write, I just couldn't help myself”
Raya Lubinetzi
Recapitulation and Outlook
Translator’s Afterword
Anne v. Adams
Literature and Addresses