Justice Matters

Mobilizing Black Germany


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In this episode of Justice Matters, co-host Mathias Risse speaks with Tiffany Florvil, associate professor of history at the University of New Mexico and fellow at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute. She is a 20th century cultural historian of Germany whose work focuses on Black Germans and their creation of new intellectual, cultural, and political practices. She is the author of Mobilizing Black Germany: Afro-German Women and the Making of a Transnational Movement, which is at the center of this episode's conversation. Together, Mathias and Tiffany discuss: how she became interested in the African diaspora in Germany as an American scholar, Germany’s colonial history, the demographics of the current Black German community, the history of organizing in Black German communities, the role of Black women in these organizations, the influences of Audre Lorde and Angela Davis, the impact of the Black Lives Matter movement in Germany, and Tiffany’s work on Black German author May Ayim.

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Justice MattersBy Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

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