{"id":785,"date":"2022-09-21T10:49:50","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T08:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bridgingblackfreedomstruggles.uni-muenster.de\/?page_id=785"},"modified":"2022-10-24T08:12:24","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T06:12:24","slug":"research-interests","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bridgingblackfreedomstruggles.com\/?page_id=785","title":{"rendered":"The Possibilities for and Limits of Transnational Allyship and Empathy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

by Priscilla Layne<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In my research, I am interested in how German solidarity with African American oppression is expressed in artworks created by Black and white German artists. This solidarity has its roots in the1960s, when many Germans became interested in the Civil Rights Movement as part of a larger attempt to join anti-racist, anti-colonial movements across the globe. Since the 60s, figures like Martin Luther King Jr. have stood for racial equality and tolerance in the German imaginary. White German artists tend to use an identification with African Americans to relieve guilt or shame and distance themselves from Germany\u2019s fascist past. They do so without reflecting on their privilege within the structures of systemic racism. Black German artists both relate to African American struggles as part of a larger Black diasporic community and they criticize white Germans for their appropriation and misuse of African American icons. Some of the artworks I will consider by white Germans are Verena Stefan\u2019s H\u00e4utungen (1975),Marcel Odenbach\u2019s video installation, \u201cAch wie gut, dass niemand wei\u00df\u201d (1999)and Ulli Lust\u2019s graphic novel Wie ich versuchte, ein guter Mensch zu sein (2017). The works I will analyze by Black Germans are several poems written by Black German poets, including May Ayim\u2019s \u201cdie zeit danach\u201d, which reflects on MLK\u2019s legacy for Black and white Germans and poetry by Maroula Blades and Trisha P. Schultz. Finally I will also look at Olumide Popoola\u2019s play Also By Mail which uses Lorraine Hansberry\u2019s A Raisin in the Sun as an intertext.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Previous Project:
American Desegregation in Post-Shoah Germany<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next Project:
Racial Capitalism and the Making of a Global Jim Crow<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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