From Black to Schwarz: Cultural Crossovers Between African America and Germany

Bys: J?rgen Heinrichs and Maria Diedrich

From Black to Schwarz explores the long and varied history of the exchanges between African America and Germany, with a particular focus on cultural interplay. Covering a wide range of media of expression--music, performance, film, scholarship, literature, visual arts, reviews--these essays trace and analyze a cultural interaction, collaboration, and mutual transformation that began in the eighteenth century, boomed during the Harlem Renaissance/Weimar Republic, survived the Third Reich's "Degenerate Art" campaigns, and (with new media available to further exchanges), is still increasingly empowering and inspiring participants on both sides of the Atlantic.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870139894
• ISBN13: 9780870139895
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: Michigan State University Press
• Length: 394 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.1"