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Showing Our Colors: Afro-German Women Speak Out
''Showing Our Colors: Afro-German Women Speak Out'' is an English translation of the German book ''Farbe bekennen'' edited by author May Ayim, Katharina Oguntoye, and Dagmar Schultz. It is the first published book by Afro-Germans. It is the first written use of the term Afro-German. A compilation of texts, testimonials and other secondary sources, the collection brings to life the stories of Black German women living amid racism, sexism and other institutional constraints in Germany. The book draws on themes and motifs prevalent in Germany from the earliest colonial interactions between Germany and black "otherness," up through the lived experiences of Black German women in the 1980s. It was groundbreaking not only for the degree to which it examined the Afro-German experience, which had been generally ignored in the larger popular discourse, but also as a forum for women to have a voice in constructing this narrative. The book also acted as a source for these Afro-German women to have a platform where their stories can be heard. The stories that were told helped the development of an Afro-German community as a common theme throughout Showing Our Colors was the idea of feeling alone and as though there was no one to relate to. The discussion of this loss of connection to others helped Afro-Germans come together and unite.
The book is subdivided into three chronologically organized subsections, which navigate the historical origins of German perceptions of Africa and blackness, the Brown Babies and accompanying social problems immediately following World War II in Germany, and finally anecdotes and narratives contextualized in lingering modern racism in Germany.
==Connection to Gilroy's ''Black Atlantic''==
In order to engage the ways in which ''Showing Our Colors'' nuances our understanding of black diasporic relationships, it is worthwhile to establish how the Black Atlantic serves as a space of transnational diasporic exchange. In his 1993 book ''The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness'', Paul Gilroy analyzed the way that narratives of continental and diasporic African peoples and their descendants occur in spaces surrounding the Atlantic Ocean. Highlighting ships as the vessels of trans-Atlantic black movement and interaction, he conceptualized the Black Atlantic as the location and unit of analysis in interpreting diasporic conversation outside of the strictures of geopolitical nationhood.〔Gilroy, Paul. "The Black Atlantic as a Counterculture of Modernity." ''The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness''. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993, pp. 1-40. Print.〕 This de-emphasis of national borders as authorial entities that legitimize peoplehood provides space for analyses like the present one in that it recognizes the inherent transnational and intercultural nature of diasporic populations. Gilroy stated: "The history of the Black Atlantic since then, continually crisscrossed by the movements of black people—not only as commodities but engaged in various struggles towards emancipation, autonomy, and citizenship—provides a means to reexamine the problems of nationality, location, identity, and historical memory."〔Gilroy (1993), p. 16.〕 ''Showing Our Colors'' directly participates in this theoretical framework as a preeminent text exploring the black German struggle to find physical and metaphysical place of belonging in all four of the domains Gilroy listed. The women continually recounted the ways that they are barred access to participation in German national identity on the basis of blackness. The thematic search for affirmation of belonging throughout the Black Atlantic makes ''Showing Our Colors'' a significant example of the way black diasporic populations make transnational connections as they formulate their conceptions of self that entail much more than a singular national identity.
''Showing Our Colors'' is one of the first iterations of the black German experience, and its construction through transnational dialogue and inquiry marks a significant moment in studies of the African diaspora. By virtue of expressing their frustration with their marginalization in German society and by elucidating the uncertain position of diasporic peoples within the global context of nationalist identification, these women affirm their identities as transnational and intercultural beings. Perhaps best expressed in the following lines from Katharina Oguntoye’s poem entitled “Reflection,” ''Showing Our Colors'' is a testament to black German women’s struggle for recognition of personhood: "now i’m telling you as your afro-german sister, that by choosing to see me as a woman without color and without her own heritage, or as a puzzling being, somehow exotic, somehow an object you are ready to leave me hanging in a similar desperation."〔Opitz, May, Katharina Oguntoye & Dagmar Schultz (trans. Anne V. Adams; Foreword by Audre Lorde), ''Showing Our Colors: Afro-German Women Speak Out'', University of Massachusetts Press, 1992, p. 215.〕 While the text delineates a shared diasporic struggle to find validation of belonging around the Black Atlantic, it is potentially in the building of the transnational diasporic community that sense of belonging can begin to be established.
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