CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2021
| Author | Fernbach, Meike Caroline |
|---|---|
| Title | The Myth of White Germany: Analysing the racialised power structures within Germany's cultural archive |
| Summary | For many people ‘Black’ and ‘German’ are two mutually exclusive concepts. Illuminating the history of Black Germans during two watershed moments in history, this paper elucidates the myth of white Germany by outlining the exclusionary nature of its cultural archive. The paper asks how the experiences of Afro-German women shed light on the structures of white hegemony in Germany’s cultural archive and the role of epistemic violence in identity formation. Centring the seemingly benign question ‘where are you from?’, the paper illustrates the much deeper and more complex meaning underlying this illocutionary act and uses it as a point of departure to outline the power dynamics of whiteness within the structures of German society. What meaning does whiteness carry in Germany? Who can claim the label ‘German’? And what does this tell us about the racialised power dynamics within German society? |
| Supervisor | Strausz, Erzsébet |
| Department | International Relations MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2021/fernbach_meike.pdf |
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