We ask that you read the following before our meeting. These are not intended to inform specific sessions and workshops, but rather, to provide some important frameworks for our work this year as a whole.
If you do not have access to Diversity and Decolonization in German Studies, edited by Regine Criser and Ervin Malakaj, please let Beverly Weber and Adrienne Merritt know.
We also invite you to revisit the DDGC Guiding Principles that inform our planning and work: https://diversityingermancurriculum.weebly.com/guiding-principles.html
Black Studies and African Studies in Germany
Auma, Maureen Maisha, et al. “‘Reclaiming Our Time’ in African Studies: Conversations from the Perspective of the Black Studies Movement in Germany.” Critical African Studies, vol. 12, no. 3, Routledge, Sept. 2020, pp. 330–53. Taylor and Francis+NEJM, doi:10.1080/21681392.2020.1792319.
"Diversity" and Institutions
Auma, Maisha, et al. Diversitätsorientierte institutionelle Restrukturierungen - Differenz, Dominanz und Diversität in der Organisationsweiterentwicklung. 2019, https://www.deutsch-plus.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/ifv-1903-auma-kinder-piesche.pdf.
Race, Anti-Racism and the Classroom
Baldwin, James. “A Talk to Teachers.” https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/baldwin-talk-to-teachers
Layne, Priscilla. “Decolonizing German Studies While Dissecting Race in the American Classroom.” Diversity and Decolonization in German Studies, edited by Regine Criser and Ervin Malakaj, Palgrave, 2020, pp. 83–100. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-34342-2_5.
Merritt, Adrienne. “A Question of Inclusion: Intercultural Competence, Systematic Racism, and the North American German Classroom.” Diversity and Decolonization in German Studies, edited by Regine Criser and Ervin Malakaj, Palgrave, 2020, pp. 177–96. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-34342-2_10.
Appleton, Nayantara Sheoran. “Do Not ‘Decolonize' . . . If You Are Not Decolonizing: Progressive Language and Planning Beyond a Hollow Academic Rebranding.” Critical Ethnic Studies Journal Blog. http://www.criticalethnicstudiesjournal.org/blog/2019/1/21/do-not-decolonize-if-you-are-not-decolonizing-alternate-language-to-navigate-desires-for-progressive-academia-6y5sg
Defining White Supremacy
Newkirk, Vann. “The Language of White Supremacy. Narrow definitions of the term actually help continue the work of the architects of the post-Jim Crow racial hierarchy.” https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/10/the-language-of-white-supremacy/542148/
Intersectionality
from Reach Everyone on the Planet.
English: https://www.boell.de/en/2019/04/16/reach-everyone-planet
Jones, Trina, and Kimberly Norwood. “Aggressive Encounters & White Fragility: Deconstructing the Trope of the Angry Black Woman.” Iowa Law Review, vol. 102, no. 5, Jan. 2017, pp. 2017–69. https://ilr.law.uiowa.edu/print/volume-102-issue-5/aggressive-encounters-and-white-fragility-deconstructing-the-trope-of-the-angry-black-woman/
Additional Optional Resources to Explore
Explore a number of resources here - but you may especially wish to review the With/Out Modernity Cards and the list of those questions:
https://decolonialfutures.net/
This site will help you think about mapping your positionality:
https://weingartenlrc.wordpress.com/2017/01/09/research-writing-whats-your-positionality/
This article will help you think through the ways that White Supremacy manifests in university culture:
Tema Okun. "White Supremacy Culture." https://www.dismantlingracism.org/uploads/4/3/5/7/43579015/okun_-_white_sup_culture.pdf
This will help you think about very concrete aspects of anti-racist education:
https://wheatoncollege.edu/academics/special-projects-initiatives/center-for-collaborative-teaching-and-learning/anti-racist-educator/
If you do not have access to Diversity and Decolonization in German Studies, edited by Regine Criser and Ervin Malakaj, please let Beverly Weber and Adrienne Merritt know.
We also invite you to revisit the DDGC Guiding Principles that inform our planning and work: https://diversityingermancurriculum.weebly.com/guiding-principles.html
Black Studies and African Studies in Germany
Auma, Maureen Maisha, et al. “‘Reclaiming Our Time’ in African Studies: Conversations from the Perspective of the Black Studies Movement in Germany.” Critical African Studies, vol. 12, no. 3, Routledge, Sept. 2020, pp. 330–53. Taylor and Francis+NEJM, doi:10.1080/21681392.2020.1792319.
"Diversity" and Institutions
Auma, Maisha, et al. Diversitätsorientierte institutionelle Restrukturierungen - Differenz, Dominanz und Diversität in der Organisationsweiterentwicklung. 2019, https://www.deutsch-plus.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/ifv-1903-auma-kinder-piesche.pdf.
Race, Anti-Racism and the Classroom
Baldwin, James. “A Talk to Teachers.” https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/baldwin-talk-to-teachers
Layne, Priscilla. “Decolonizing German Studies While Dissecting Race in the American Classroom.” Diversity and Decolonization in German Studies, edited by Regine Criser and Ervin Malakaj, Palgrave, 2020, pp. 83–100. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-34342-2_5.
Merritt, Adrienne. “A Question of Inclusion: Intercultural Competence, Systematic Racism, and the North American German Classroom.” Diversity and Decolonization in German Studies, edited by Regine Criser and Ervin Malakaj, Palgrave, 2020, pp. 177–96. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-34342-2_10.
Appleton, Nayantara Sheoran. “Do Not ‘Decolonize' . . . If You Are Not Decolonizing: Progressive Language and Planning Beyond a Hollow Academic Rebranding.” Critical Ethnic Studies Journal Blog. http://www.criticalethnicstudiesjournal.org/blog/2019/1/21/do-not-decolonize-if-you-are-not-decolonizing-alternate-language-to-navigate-desires-for-progressive-academia-6y5sg
Defining White Supremacy
Newkirk, Vann. “The Language of White Supremacy. Narrow definitions of the term actually help continue the work of the architects of the post-Jim Crow racial hierarchy.” https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/10/the-language-of-white-supremacy/542148/
Intersectionality
from Reach Everyone on the Planet.
- Kimberle Crenshaw, “Why Intersectionality Can’t Wait.” Reach Everyone on the Planet. Pp. 17-20
- Fatima El-Tayeb. “Racial capitalism: hierarchies of belonging.” Reach Everyone on the Planet, pp. 39-41.
- Sharon Dodua Otoo, “Language Matters.” Reach Everyone on the Planet. Pp. 91-93.
English: https://www.boell.de/en/2019/04/16/reach-everyone-planet
Jones, Trina, and Kimberly Norwood. “Aggressive Encounters & White Fragility: Deconstructing the Trope of the Angry Black Woman.” Iowa Law Review, vol. 102, no. 5, Jan. 2017, pp. 2017–69. https://ilr.law.uiowa.edu/print/volume-102-issue-5/aggressive-encounters-and-white-fragility-deconstructing-the-trope-of-the-angry-black-woman/
Additional Optional Resources to Explore
Explore a number of resources here - but you may especially wish to review the With/Out Modernity Cards and the list of those questions:
https://decolonialfutures.net/
This site will help you think about mapping your positionality:
https://weingartenlrc.wordpress.com/2017/01/09/research-writing-whats-your-positionality/
This article will help you think through the ways that White Supremacy manifests in university culture:
Tema Okun. "White Supremacy Culture." https://www.dismantlingracism.org/uploads/4/3/5/7/43579015/okun_-_white_sup_culture.pdf
This will help you think about very concrete aspects of anti-racist education:
https://wheatoncollege.edu/academics/special-projects-initiatives/center-for-collaborative-teaching-and-learning/anti-racist-educator/
