Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. Acknowledgments 7
4. Who Can Speak and Who Is Heard/Hurt? Facing Problems of Race, Racism, and Ethnic Diversity in the Humanities in Germany: A Survey of the Issues at Stake 9
5. I. Race in Translation: Comparing Racial and Xenophobic Formations in Germany and the United States
6. ‘Ausländer’ – A Racialized Concept? ‘Race’ as an Analytical Concept in Contemporary German Immigration History 45
7. Perspective Matters: Racism and Resistance in the Everyday Lives of Youths of Color in Germany 69
8. Beyond a Trifling Presence: Afro-Germans and Identity Boundaries in Germany 83
9. Race and Racism in Translation: “Who Can Speak?” in German Renderings of Literary African American English 101
10. II. Normative Whiteness in the German Humanities
11. Post-Racism, Colorblind Individualism & Political Correctness: Contemporary Modes of Materialization in American Studies and German Academia 123
12. Kanak Academic: Teaching in Enemy Territory 153
13. The Migrant Scholar of Color as Refugee in the Western Academy 177
14. Keeping Academia White: A Case Study 195
15. III. Diversity-Conscious Approaches to Academic and Pedagogical Practice
16. On Racism without Race: The Need to Diversify Germanistik and the German Academy 217
17. “So You Want to Write about American Indians?” Ethical Reflections on Euro-Academia’s Research on Indigenous Cultural Narratives 239
18. “The Danger of a Single Story”: Addressing Contemporary Public Discourse and Protest Movements in American Studies Classrooms in Germany 261
19. IV. Shifting Perspectives: Transatlantic and Genre-Crossing Reflections on White Normativity
20. Goethe Meets Baldwin: Notes towards a Comparative Perspective beyond Misappropri 285
21. Notes from the Margin: Academic White Spaces and the Silencing of Scholars of Color 295
22. Transatlantic Postcolonial (T)Races in the Classroom: From Defoe’s Desert Island to Larsen’s Quicksand and Black-ish Suburbia 315
23. Passing Tone/Note 337
24. Contributors 343