Tag: Toxi

  • Schwarzsein, Weißsein, Deutschsein: Racial Narratives and Counter-discourses in German Film After 1950 Duke University 2012 286 pages Michelle René Eley Dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Carolina-Duke Program – German Studies in the Graduate School of Duke University This dissertation uses film to explore…

  • Black German culture, history highlighted at Amherst-sponsored conference Amherst College News Amherst College Amherst, Massachusetts 2013-08-16 Peter Rooney, Director of Public Affairs As more African-Americans are realizing they have German roots, and as Germans expand the notion of what it means to be German, a new academic discipline dedicated to examining the Black German experience…

  • “Race Under Reconstruction in German Cinema” investigates postwar racial formations via a pivotal West German film by one of the most popular and prolific directors of the era. The release of Robert Stemmle’s Toxi (1952) coincided with the enrolment in West German schools of the first five hundred Afro-German children fathered by African-American occupation soldiers.