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Racism & Critical Whiteness
Europe's era of world conquest has given rise to racist theories and classifications which until today are very much virulent in Northern countries and have also left their marks in all parts of the world. In view of more equal and non-discriminatory relations, anti-racism methods and critical whiteness help to analyse and make everyday racism and White domination visible, and thereby addressable.
An Open Letter from African women to the Minister of Culture: The Venus Hottentot Cake, by blackfeminist.org
April 21, 2012. We the undersigned women of African /African descent and our supporters, which include anti-racist activists, scholars community leaders and Faith leaders wish to address the Swedish Venus Hottentot Cake Incident. First, we... |+| read article
"Mit kolonialen Grüßen... Berichte und Erzählungen von Auslandsaufenthalten rassismuskritisch betrachtet", neue Broschüre von Glokal e.V.
Wenn wir auf Reisen oder sogar für eine längere Zeit in den globalen Süden gehen, erleben wir ungemein viel und möchten gerne unseren Freund_innen und Verwandten zuhause berichten und sie an unseren Erlebnissen, Erfahrungen und Eindrücken teilhaben lassen.... |+| read article
Editorial: Germany’s genocide in Namibia – Unbearable silence, or How not to deal with your colonial past
On 22 March 2012, the German parliament will debate a |+| motion to acknowledge its brutal 1904-08 genocide of the Nama and Herero peoples. Germany’s... |+| read article
Reinhart Kössler/Henning Melber: The genocide in Namibia (1904-08) and its consequences: Toward a culture of memory for a memory culture today – a German perspective
The repatriation of human remains more than a century after they were taken to Germany from Namibia has evoked painful memories of colonial wars in which primary African resistance was crushed, and genocide perpetrated (1904–08) in what was then the colony of... |+| read article
Peter H. Katjavivi: The significance of the repatriation of Namibian human skulls
Former Namibian Ambassador to Germany, Prof. Peter H. Katjavivi, who was instrumental in getting the repatriation process with Charité started, calls upon both Namibians and Germans to confront the past honestly as part of the process of recovering human... |+| read article
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