Not so plain as Black and White : Afro-German culture and history, 1890-2000 / edited by Patricia Mazón and Reinhild Steingröver ; with a foreword by Russell Berman.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-240) and index.

Part 1: Afro-Germans in historical perspective -- Dangerous liaisons: race, nation, and German identity / Fatima El-Tayeb -- First Besatzungskinder: Afro-German children, colonial childrearing practices, and racial policy in German southwest Africa, 1890-1914 / Krista Molly O'Donnell -- Converging specters of an other within: race and gender in pre-1945 Afro-German history / Tina M. Campt -- Part 2. Cultural representations and self-representations of Afro-Germans -- Louis Brody and the Black presence in German film before 1945 / Tobias Nagl -- Narrating "race" in 1950s' West Germany: the phenomenon of the Toxi films / Heide Fehrenbach -- Will everything be fine? Anti-racist practice in recent German cinema / Randall Halle -- Writing diasporic identity: Afro-German literature since 1985 / Leroy Hopkins -- Souls of Black Volk: Contradiction? Oxymoron? / Anne Adams.