Tina M. Campt

Other Germans: Black Germans and the Politics of Race, Gender, and Memory in the Third Reich

Its hard to imagine an issue or image more riveting than Black Germans during the Third Reich. Yet accounts of their lives are virtually nonexistent, despite the fact that they lived through a regime dedicated to racial purity. Tina Campts Other Germans tells the story of this largely forgotten group of individuals, with Important distinctions from other accounts. Most strikingly, Campt centers her arguments on race, rather than anti-Semitism. She also provides an oral history as background for her study, interviewing two Black German subjects for her book. In the end the author comes face to face with an inevitable question: Is there a relationship between the history of Black Germans and those of other black communities? The answers to Campts questions make Other Germans essential reading in the emerging study of what it means to be black and German in the context of a society that looked at anyone with non-German blood as raclally impure at best.

gendering diaspora: transnational feminism, diaspora and its hegemonies

What does it mean to theorize diaspora through an explicitly feminist frame? What does it entail to raise the question of hegemony in relation to diasporic formations? How does one most productively engage the tensions among individuals and communities situated very differently within a given diasporic formation? And what does feminist transnationalism offer such an analysis? These are difficult and provocative questions that are anything but obvious or straightforward. They are questions that the editors of this special issue posed to a diverse, interdisciplinary group of feminists assembled as part of Diasporic Hegemonies, an ongoing research and curricular project we initiated at Duke University (North Carolina) in the spring of 2005. The essays collected in this volume provide a window into the rich dialogue that emerged from our attempts to think through these issues collaboratively and creatively in ways that keep open the question of what constitutes both diaspora and feminist analysis.

what's the ‘ trans ’ and where's the ‘ national ’ in transnational feminist practice? – a response

In my response to these two papers, I want to step back a little and consider some of the broader questions that might be raised by thinking these two pieces together. I would like to do that in a somewhat unorthodox way, by bringing the work of three important thinkers into this conversation. The first of these is Stuart Hall, whose work has influenced me and, I suspect, many of the readers of this issue in profound ways. I am going to frame my response by putting a somewhat oblique spin on the title of an old Stuart Hall essay that, as I am sure many of you will agree, remains remarkably relevant decades after its initial publication.

what's the ‘trans

In my response to these two papers, I want to step back a little and consider some of the broader questions that might be raised by thinking these two pieces together. I would like to do that in a somewhat unorthodox way, by bringing the work of three important thinkers into this conversation. The first of these is Stuart Hall, whose work has influenced me and, I suspect, many of the readers of this issue in profound ways. I am going to frame my response by putting a somewhat oblique spin on the title of an old Stuart Hall essay that, as I am sure many of you will agree, remains remarkably relevant decades after its initial publication.

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In my response to these two papers, I want to step back a little and consider some of the broader questions that might be raised by thinking these two pieces together. I would like to do that in a somewhat unorthodox way, by bringing the work of three important thinkers into this conversation. The first of these is Stuart Hall, whose work has influenced me and, I suspect, many of the readers of this issue in profound ways. I am going to frame my response by putting a somewhat oblique spin on the title of an old Stuart Hall essay that, as I am sure many of you will agree, remains remarkably relevant decades after its initial publication.