Posts tagged "history"

James K. Karales, Selma to Montgomery March, 1965. Gelatin silver print. via tissie:pedrosanchez

James K. Karales, Selma to Montgomery March, 1965. Gelatin silver print.

via tissie:pedrosanchez

September 1, 1900. “Wabash Avenue north from Adams Street, Chicago.” 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. via Shorpy

September 1, 1900. “Wabash Avenue north from Adams Street, Chicago.” 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. via Shorpy

Kathleen Hanna started a blog to collect and post Bikini Kill stories. Photo link.

Kathleen Hanna started a blog to collect and post Bikini Kill stories. Photo link.

'Who Dat?'

After being inundated with this phrase today I decided to find out what it meant (I don’t follow football). Much more interesting cultural history than any other sports chant I’ve heard of..I wonder how many people who’ve said it today know it has mistrel roots.

Blackness In Nazi Germany: Addendum

One of these days I’m going to steal Emily Fransee’s brain and get a couple Nobels, but until then I’m going to read some of her cited resources on blackness in Nazi Germany that she sent this morning. Thanks Emily, looking forward to the PDFs!

  • Lusane, Clarence. Hitler’s black victims: the historical experiences of Afro-Germans, European Blacks, Africans, and African Americans in the Nazi era (2002).
  • Campt, Tina. Other Germans: Black Germans and the politics of race, gender, and memory in the Third Reich (2004). This one is available online for free: http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015058079644
  • Scheck, Raffael. Hitler’s African victims: the German Army massacres of Black French soldiers in 1940 (2006)
  • Martin, Peter and Christine Alonzo. Zwischen Charleston und Stechschritt: Schwarze im Nationalsozialismus (2004).
  • Massaquoi, Hans J. Destined to witness: growing up black in Nazi Germany. [Autobiography of the son of a Liberian and a German nurse - I think this one is pretty widely available.]
  • Coquery-Vidrovitch, Catherine. Des victimes oubliées du nazisme: les Noirs et l’Allemagne dans la première moitié du XXe siècle. [I like this scholar, but it is way in French - luckily she is popular so there might be an English (or German) translation soon]
  • Wigger, Iris. Die “Schwarze Schmach am Rhein” : rassistische Diskriminierung zwischen Geschlecht, Klasse, Nation und Rasse (2007).
  • Lewerenz, Susann. Die Deutsche Afrika-Schau (1935 - 1940) : Rassismus, Kolonialrevisionismus und postkoloniale Auseinandersetzungen im nationalsozialistischen Deutschland. (2006)

The Fate of Blacks In Nazi Germany

Very little is known because of the small population of blacks in Germany at the time and the general disinterest among European scholars to find out. So far we know that there was a traveling show called Africa Schau that the Nazis hoped to use as a way to gather blacks. They also sterilized many children that were a result of French-African colonial soldiers reproducing with women of the Rhineland.

Music fans shake it up at Pepper’s Hideout -Michael Abramson NPR: Shining A ‘Light’ on Chicago’s South Side Soul

Music fans shake it up at Pepper’s Hideout -Michael Abramson

NPR: Shining A ‘Light’ on Chicago’s South Side Soul

Miep Gies Passed Away Today At Age 100

The last survivor of the group of people who protected Anne Frank and her family. She found Anne’s diary after the family was taken away by the Gestapo and kept it unread for Anne or her family to pick up later.

You guys, Friendster got a whole lot more fun. A gift shop! A new logo that represents whatever they say it does!  More like Facebook but 10 years too late! And I apparently still have an account!

You guys, Friendster got a whole lot more fun. A gift shop! A new logo that represents whatever they say it does!  More like Facebook but 10 years too late! And I apparently still have an account!

→'Claude Lévi-Strauss, Anthropologist, Dies at 100'

In his analysis of myth and culture, Mr. Lévi-Strauss might contrast imagery of monkeys and jaguars; consider the differences in meaning of roasted and boiled food (cannibals, he suggested, tended to boil their friends and roast their enemies); and establish connections between weird mythological tales and ornate laws of marriage and kinship.