Blackness in Interwar Germany

Germany’s past in relation to Blackness is often dismissed as peripheral: its colonial enterprise lasted merely three decades, and, until the end of World War Two, the Black population in Germany was small. Yet debates about Blackness, especially in the 1920s, were part of wider discussions in which social and political problems were articulated through race—problems the Nazis later claimed to have answers for.
Through a deep exploration of Germany’s imperial experien