This is the first English translation of an important document in the history of the black presence in Germany and Europe: the autobiography of Theodor Michael.

In the 1980s and 1990s, Black German women began to play significant roles in challenging the discrimination in their own nation and abroad. Their grassroots or

The rich history of encounters prior to World War I between people from German-speaking parts of Europe and people of African descent has gone largely unnoticed

Investigates the appropriation of black popular culture as a symbol of rebellion in postwar Germany

Tells the story, through analysis and oral history, of a nearly forgotten minority under Hitler's regime