Germany's Colonial Pasts

Part I: Politics of Colonial Culture 1. "What Does German Colonialism Have To Do With National Socialism?" Pascal Grosse, Humboldt University Berlin; 2. "The Introduction of Protectorate Law in Togo and Cameroon" David Simo, University of Yaounde, Cameroon; 3. "The Weimar Republic: A Postcolonial State in a Still-Colonial World" Marcia Klotz, University of California at Irvine Part II: Gender and Sexuality 4. "Sittenkontrolle ist hier bereits eingefuhrt: Jewish Prostitution in German Southwest Africa" Joachim Warmbold, Tel Aviv University; 5. "Race, Gender, and Sexuality in German Southwest Africa. Han's Grimm's Sudafrikanische Novellen" Sara Lennox, University of Massachusetts at Amherst; 6. "Going Native in Kenya" Nina Berman, Ohio State University Part III: Identifications of Self and Other 7. "Inventing the Auslandsdeutsche: Emigration, Colonial Fantasy, and German Diasporic Identity, 1848-1870" Bradley Naranch, Johns Hopkins University; 8. "Colonialism and the Culture of Respectability" Woodruff D. Smith, University of Massachusetts at Boston; 9. "Music and German Construction of Race in the Pacific" Vanessa Agnew, University of Michigan Part IV: Nazi Visions of Africa 10. "Race Power in Postcolonial Germany: The German Africa Show and the National Socialist Sate, 1935-1940" Elisa von Joeden-Forgey, University of Pennsylvania; 11. "Raum ohne Volk: German Colonial Film Propaganda" Robert Gordon, University of Vermont & Dennis Mahoney, University of Vermont Part V: Reflections of Colonialism 12. "Tranquebar Tales: The Colonial Labyrinths of a German Archive" Gita Rajan, Hunter College of the City University of New York; 13. "Constructing Racial Difference in 'Colonial Poland'" Kristin Kopp, Harvard University; 14. "Theology as a Vision for Colonialism: From Supersessionism to Dejudaization in German Protestantism" Susannah Heschel, Dartmouth College; 15. "Approaches from the Outside: Autobiographies of Black Men in Germany" Alain Patrice Nganang, Shippensburg

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