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Faculty of Arts and HumanitiesDepartment of History - Institute of North American History

Publications

Monography

Editorship

In preparation

  • Co-editorshup (withRebecca Brückmann & Charlotte Lerg). Feminist Movements in North American History: A Handbook (forthcoming with De Gruyter in 2024).
  • „Race, Rassismus, und Werbung”, in Silvan Niedermeier (Hg.). Rassismus in den USA: Ein Handbuch zu Geschichte, Gesellschaft und Politik (forthcoming with UVK – utb Verlag in 2024).

 

Essays in collected volumes (Peer Reviewed)

  • “’Adoption by Americans is perhaps the Best Solution’: Familie, race, und Internationale Adoptionen aus Deutschland und Korea nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg“, in Arvid Schors & Fabian Klose (Hg.). Wie schreibt man Internationale Geschichte? Empirische Vermessungen zum 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Frankfurt: Campus, 2023.
  • “The Racial Double Standard: German Shepherds, African Americans and Police Violence in the 1960s,” zusammen mit Mieke Roscher, in Jonathan W. Thurston (Hg.), Animals and Race. Michigan State University Press, 2023.
  • “Colorblind Love in Transracial Adoption: Pearl S. Buck’s Adoption of a Black German Child,” in Adopting Children across Race and Nations: Histories and Legacies. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2022.
  • “’These children will have good decent American homes and parents’: Zur Debatte um proxy adoptions und die Adoption afrodeutscher Kinder in die USA nach 1945”, in Benedikt Stuchtey, Bettina Hitzer (Hg.). In unsere Mitte genommen. Adoption im 20. Jahrhundert. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2022.
  • “Sojourner Truth, Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave (1850),” in Manfred Brocker (Hg.), Geschichte des politischen Denkens, Band III: Das 19. Jahrhundert. Berlin: Suhrkamp, 2021.
  • “’Hergestellt unter ausschließlicher Verwendung von Kakaobohnen deutscher Kolonien’–On Representations of Chocolate Consumption as a Colonial Endeavor,“ in Tiffany N. Florvil, Vanessa Plumly (eds.). Rethinking Black German Studies. Frankfurt; New York: Peter Lang, 2018, 39-70.
  • “’I identify primarily as a Black German in America:’ Race, Bürgerrechte und Adoptionen in den USA der 1950er Jahre,“ in Elke Kleinau, Ingvill Mochmann (eds.). Kinder des Zweiten Weltkrieges – Stigmatisierung, Ausgrenzung und Bewältigungsstrategien. Frankfurt; New York: Campus, 2016, 115-135.
  • “Der Sarotti-M*** (1918/1922), oder: Was hat Konsum mit Rassismus zu tun?“ in Jürgen Martschukat, Olaf Stieglitz (eds.). Race & Sex: Eine Geschichte der Neuzeit. Berlin: Neofelis Verlag, 2016, 217-224.
  • “’To Highlight my Beautiful Chocolate Skin.’ The Cultural Politics of the Racial Epidermis,” in Dirk Vanderbeke, Caroline Rosenthal (eds.). Probing the Skin: Cultural Representations of our Contact Zone. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015, 73-91.
  • “In the Doing of Hair, One Does Race: Afroamerikanische Hairstyles als Technologien des Selbst” in Jens Elberfeld, Marcus Otto (eds.). Das schöne Selbst. Zur Genealogie des modernen Subjekts zwischen Ethik und Ästhetik. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2009, 285-311.

Articles (Peer Reviewed)

  • ’These Black Americans Appear to Be the Color of Chocolate or Walnut or Caramel‘. Zu Schokolade als racial signifier und Konstruktionen von Schwarzsein in den USA des 20. Jahrhunderts” in Historische Anthropologie, Vol. 25, No. 1, 2017, 75-93.
  • “Advertising Chocolate, Consuming Race? On the Peculiar Relationship of Chocolate, German Colonialism, and Blackness,” in Food & History, Vol. 12, No. 1, 2014, 97-112.
  • “Chocolate, Race, and the Atlantic World: A Bittersweet History”, Special Issue on the Black Atlantic, Comparativ: Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung, Vol. 21, No. 5, 2011, 31-49. 

Further Publications/Media appearences

Reviews

  • Rezension von Janne Lahti (Hg.). German and United States Colonialism in a
    Connected World: Entangled Empire    , in German Historical Institute London Bulletin, Vol. XLIV, No. 1, 2022, 113-16.
  • Kori Graves. A War Born Family: African American Adoption in the Wake of the Korean War. New York: New York University Press, 2020, in Adoption & Culture (Vol. 9, No. 1, 2021).
  • William L. Andrews. Slavery and Class in the American South: A Generation of Slave Narrative Testimony, 1840-1865. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019, in Amerikastudien/American Studies: A Quarterly (Vol. 66, No. 2, 2021).
  • David Ciarlo. Advertising Empire: Race and Visual Culture in Imperial Germany. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2011, in German Historical Institute London Bulletin, Vol. XXXV, No. 1, May 2013.
  • Nell Irvin Painter. The History of White People. New York, W. W. Norton & Company 2010. Published on H-Soz-u-Kult, 05. October 2012.
  • Jacqueline Goldsby. A Spectacular Secret. Lynching in American Life and Literature. Chicago, IL, The University of Chicago Press 2006. Published on H-Soz-u-Kult, 29. January 2008.
  • Susannah Walker. Style and Status. Selling Beauty to African American Women, 1920-1975. Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 2007. Published on H-Soz-u-Kult, 05. August 2007.
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