Crosscurrents : African Americans, Africa, and Germany in the modern world / edited by David McBride, Leroy Hopkins, and C. Aisha Blackshire-Belay.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Africa, Europe, and America : the modern roots from a European perspective / Hans W. Debrunner -- Self-encounters : two eighteenth-century African memoirs from Moravian Bethlehem / Katherine Faull Eze -- Against all slavery, whether white or black : German-Americans and the irrepressible conflict / Bruce Levine -- Black Prussians : Germany and African American education from James W.C. Pennington to Angela Davis / Leroy Hopkins -- Weber's Amerikabild and the African American experience / Lawrence Scaff -- African American performers and culture in Weimar Germany / Christine Naumann -- In search of Africa in the German world : transcultural migrations / C. Aisha Blackshire-Belay -- Missions, medicine, and colonial technologies : Africa and German colonialism in the Mittel-Afrika era / David McBride -- King Njoya and the Kingdom of Bamum in German-African relations 1902-1915 / Emmanuel Matateyou -- Racially mixed marriages in colonial Namibia / Kathleen J. Reich -- Jesse Owens and the Germans : a political love story / William J. Baker -- Black military experience in Germany : from the First World War to the present / Monroe H. Little, Jr. -- Censoring your ally : W.E.B. Du Bois in the German Democratic Republic / Hamilton H. Beck -- Afro-Germans in Germany : a private perspective / Waltraud Nicole Watson -- German factor in the global Black experience : from the Berlin Conference to the Berlin Wall / Ali A. Mazrui.