“Nazi Jim Crow”
“Nazi Jim Crow”
Hans Jürgen Massaquoi’s Democratic Vistas on the Black Atlantic and Afro-Germans in Ebony
This chapter offers empirical insights into the racial discourse on diversity, the creation of national and personal identities, and the perception of minorities in Germany and the United States by looking at the two countries’ racial history. It focuses on Hans Jürgen Massaquoi’s triple identity as a mixed-race person of African and German heritage born in Hamburg to a German mother and African father in the Weimar era and later naturalized as an American citizen. While managing editor of Ebony, the most influential African American magazine in the United States, Massaquoi published a series of articles on Afro-Germans. The chapter examines his autobiographical writings and compares the attitudes of Americans and Germans toward blacks, mixed-race people, and racial assimilation. It also considers Massaquoi’s journey of personal transformation and how he became witness to the national transformation brought about in America by the civil rights movement.
Keywords: diversity, Germany, Hans Jürgen Massaquoi, Ebony, Afro-Germans, Americans, Germans, blacks, America, civil rights movement
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