Black and German. New Perspectives

Description

In this discussion, panelists will talk about their work and activism, mobilizing around anti-racism, the specificities of being Black and German, and what the U.S. and the American discourse around race and racism means to them.

Panelists:

• Alice Hasters is a journalist and activist from Cologne, based in Berlin. She is the author of Was Weisse Menschen Nicht Über Rassismus Hören Wollen Aber Wissen Sollten (What White People Don't Want to Hear but Should Know About Racism). Hasters runs the award-nominated podcast Feuer & Brot with Maximiliane Haecke.
• Patrice Poutrus is an expert in migration, xenophobia, and racism in the German Democratic Republic and in post-1990 German. He is the author of Contested Asylum: Postwar-German until Today (2019) and co-editor of After Auschwitz. The Difficult Legacies of the GDR (2021).

The panel will be moderated by Herbert Brewer (Morgan State University) and was co-organized by Victoria Harms (Johns Hopkins University), Helen Harrison (Morgan State University), and Brett Berliner (Morgan State University). This hybrid event is sponsored by the DAAD German Academic Service, Johns Hopkins University, Morgan State University, and the Quarles Institute.

All in-person events at Johns Hopkins must follow university COVID-19 policies. See current guidelines online. Please attend the event virtually by using the Zoom link.