White Fragility and Black Resilience: Challenging Racism in Germany: A Graduate Workshop with Tupoka Ogette and Stephen Lawson

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Please join this unique opportunity to speak with and learn from Germany's leading anti-racism trainer, Tupoka Ogette, and artist Stephen Lawson. They will share insights into their work against racism and for Black empowerment, especially with Black German youth, the challenges of fighting racism in Germany, as well as the similarities and differences between their home country and the U.S. This workshop is open to graduate students of all disciplines.

You have exclusive access to a translated excerpt of Ogette's latest book on anti-racist lessons, And Now, You!, in which she shares her own experiences growing up, surviving, and being a mother of Black children in Germany. You can also watch an English-language interview with Ogette and Lawson on the Black German Heritage and Research Association channel. German speakers can also watch this 2021 episode of the ZDF's Germania with Tupoka Ogette: "Afrodeutsch? Das bin ja ich!"

With generous support from the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute, the Department of Anthropology, the Center for Africana Studies, and the Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism at Johns Hopkins University.