Intimate Histories - (Explorations in Culture and International History) by Nadja Klopprogge (Hardcover)
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Highlights
- Intimate Histories focuses on intimate relations as sites of shared pasts connecting African American and German history in the years between 1933 and 1990.
- About the Author: Nadja Klopprogge is an assistant professor at the University of Tübingen.
- 352 Pages
- History, Europe
- Series Name: Explorations in Culture and International History
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About the Book
Intimate Histories investigates the role and conceptualizations of intimacy between African American and German relations between 1933 through 1990. Reviewing issues surrounding anti-miscegenation laws, casual sexual encounters, and unique friendships, this book traces how intimacy became an important site of transnational racial history.
Book Synopsis
Intimate Histories focuses on intimate relations as sites of shared pasts connecting African American and German history in the years between 1933 and 1990. By tracing topics that include anti-miscegenation laws, forced sterilization, casual sexual encounters, marriage, and friendships, Intimate Histories broadens our understanding of African American-German relations during the so-called "century of extremes."
About the Author
Nadja Klopprogge is an assistant professor at the University of Tübingen. She has held positions in Gießen and Basel, and in 2016 she was a fellow in the History of Race and Ethnicity at the German Historical Institute in Washington, D.C. She has published on the nexus of race and sex in postwar Germany, and she her work has been awarded the Best Article Award of the German Association of American Studies.
