Yesterday we sent our open letter to the Klett publishing house on the discontinuation of the I*** booklets. More than 200 signatories from schools, politics, academia and civil society from Germany and abroad have signed our demands and oppose the discriminatory and stereotypical portrayal of Native Americans in “Meine Indianerhefte” published by Klett Verlag. On our online portal mangoes&bullets we have compiled a series of further materials and background literature.
Tag Archives: Racism
Urgent call for solidarity with evicted migrants in Tangier
In the past days, the people living in the Boukhalef neighborhood in Tangier have experienced another wave of violence and repression by local populations and the Moroccan state, in their role of border guard for the European Union. Continue reading
Antiromaism. Racism, exoticism and German history in the present day
Since a few days there is a debate on the Berlin reflect mailing list about anti-Romaism and racism in general. A person negatively affected by antiromaism had criticized the mail of a white person whose user name included “gypsy” and which was about wanting to settle in Berlin “after all the rumzigeunern”. When asked, she wrote that she had the right to use it to positively describe her attitude to life. The person who problematized this as racist was met with massive attacks (in the sense of “relax,” “white people are also discriminated against,” “scientifically speaking, it’s a completely different story,” “if you react like that, you can’t be taken seriously,” etc., i.e., classic defensive reactions that can be found in almost every book on racism). We cannot recount the exchange in the form of more than 100 emails here, but we are blogging here in a slightly modified form the email of a member of glokal, which refers to some mails. With this, we hope, you can do something even without exact knowledge of the previous mails. Continue reading
Guide critical of racism published
Initiated by the IMAFREDU research project of Dr. Elina Marmer, last year a collective of authors, among others with the participation of glokal, developed a “Racism Critical Guide for Reflecting on Existing and Creating New Didactic Teaching and Learning Materials for School and Out-of-School Educational Work on Blackness, Africa and the African Diaspora”. It is now available digitally and will soon be available in print.
The urgency of a racism-critical revision of school educational materials was highlighted in a textbook study Migration and Integration published in March by the Federal Government Commissioner for Migration, Refugees and Integration, Minister of State Aydan Özoğuz. The study shows a great need to catch up in the production of textbooks in many areas. for example, in the representation and address of the German migration society:
“Thus, a key finding is that in the textbooks analyzed, migration is primarily problematized as conflictual as well as crisis-ridden. The approach of presenting migration-based diversity as normality is rarely found.” Continue reading
My Right Is Your Right! Demo 21.03.2015
“A different asylum policy in Germany and the EU is possible if we demand it together and take the changes into our own hands.” From the manifesto of the My Right Is Your Right network, which is organizing a large-scale demonstration on the Global Day Against Racism (March 21, 2015). The event starts at 1 p.m. at Spreewaldplatz. Info material as well as more information is available here.
Carnival: Why blackfacing is still racist in 2015
The jury for the “Anglicism of the Year” has chosen “blackfacing” as the defining loanword of 2014. Little by little, an understanding is thus also emerging in Germany that racist caricaturing of black people has a tradition in this country. Especially at carnival time. Tahir Della, Jamie Schearer and Hadija Haruna – active with the Initiative Black People in Germany – have published an article on this in MiGAZIN.
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We are tomorrow @Ballhaus Naunynstraße
With an exciting and very extensive program, Berlin’s Ballhaus Naunynstraße theater is devoting itself until February 2015 to visions and memories on the occasion of the Berlin Conference of 1884/1885. The following trailer provides an introduction to “We are tomorrow”. Click here for the program.
Ethnic settlers in rural areas
The Amadeo Antonio Foundation, with its current brochure “Völkische Siedler/innen im ländlichen Raum. Basic knowledge and action strategies” published an important publication on the subject of right-wing extremism and ecology.
“The present brochure is a tool in the sense of the promoting federal program “Cohesion through Participation”: it gives an overview of the activities of Völkische Siedler, their argumentations and identifying features. By explaining the background of Völkische Siedler, describing examples and everyday situations, and offering approaches to strategies for action, the brochure provides local activists with assistance in their efforts to combat anti-democratic tendencies.”
For further discussion we can recommend the two books, “Rechte Ökologie” by Oliver Geden (unfortunately only available second-hand) and “Globalisierung aus Sicht der extremen Rechten” by Anton Maegerle.
Film tip: Concerning Violence
Yesterday the German tour of the film“Concerning Violence – Nine Scenes from the Anti-Imperialistic Self Defense” by Göran Hugo Olsson started. The film is a visual underscore of Frantz Fanon’s 1961 anti-colonial manifesto “The Damned of the Earth.” Historical footage is combined with excerpts of Fanon’s text spoken by Lauryn Hill and embedded by a foreword by Gayatri C. Spivak.
The film has been awarded the film prize “cinema fairbinds“The film has been awarded the prize. On the page of the ministry it says: “With the award, the BMZ honors films that in an outstanding way invite current dialogue on particular aspects of the North-South relationship.” With this, the BMZ underlines the importance of colonialism, racism and capitalism criticism for current debates on development cooperation.
A list of all performances in Germany can be found here.