Publikationen

“’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. 

“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.

“’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.

“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.

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, Nr. 1, 2017.

“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, ed. by Nora Kreuzenbeck and Patricia Wiegmann, Vol. 21, No. 5, 2011, 31-49.

“The Wrong Nigga to Fuck Wit! Die Hip Hop Kultur als zeitgenössische Form des Black Freedom Struggle?“ in Testcard: Beiträge zur Popgeschichte 14: Discover America, April 2005, 108-13.

“African American Hairstyles zwischen politischem Widerstand und kultureller Ausdrucksform“, in Testcard: Beiträge zur Popgeschichte 13: Black Music, July 2004, 26-31.

REVIEWS

Review of 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.

Review of Nell Irvin Painter. The History of White People. New York, W. W. Norton & Company 2010. Published on H-Soz-u-Kult, 05. October 2012.

Review of 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.

Review of 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. 

PAPERS GIVEN AT CONFERENCES

“Chocolate, Blackness, and the Atlantic World: A Bittersweet History,” Invited Lecture, W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture Series, Humboldt University, November 2015.

“Food and Race: Chocolate as an ‘Afrodiziac’?” Paper given at the Annual Meeting of the German Association of American Historians (DGfA), “Histories of American Foodways“, Erfurt, February 2015.

“Vom „Mohrenkopf“ zum Schokokuss; oder was hat Konsum mit Rassismus zu tun?“ Invited Lecture at the d.a.i. Tübingen, December 2013.

"’When I die I will be happy, cause Jesus will love me with my hair nappy’ – Reflections on Black hairstyles in US-Basketball Culture,“ Conference „Cultures of Basketball,“ Humboldt University Berlin, November 2013.

“To Highlight my Beautiful Chocolate Skin.’  The Cultural Politics of the Racial Epidermis,” Conference „Probing the Skin“, University of Jena, April 2013.

"Consuming Race? Chocolate and the Constructions of Blackness in German Popular Culture“, International Conference „Wanna Race? Constructions and Contestations of “Race” in German Cultural History”, German Studies Department, University of Cincinnati, Ohio, October 2012.“

’Toxi kehrt heim’: Der Diskurs um die sogenannten brown babies in den USA nach 1945“, Research Seminar at the German Historical Institute, Washington, DC, July 2012.“

’Such a chocolate cutie’: Exoticism, Racial Naming, and Resistance in German Popular Discourse”, at the “Changing Concepts in the Constructions of Race: Critical Whiteness Studies and Race in the Circum-Atlantic World“, 3. Workshop, Young Scholars Network „Black Diaspora and Germany“, John F. Kennedy-Institute, Free University Berlin, January 2012.

“Advertising Chocolate, Consuming Race?  On the Peculiar Relationship of Chocolate and Blackness”, International Conference “Between Local and Global: The History of Cocoa and Chocolate,” Dept. of History at the Heinrich Heine University, Stiftung Rheinisch-Westfälisches Wirtschaftsarchiv Cologne, Chocolate Museum Cologne, October 2010.

“Chocolate, Race, and the Atlantic World: A Bittersweet History”, International Conference “Being on the Move: Transfers, Emancipation and Formations of the Black Atlantic”, Erfurt University, July 2010.

“Was interessiert uns Schokolade? Konsum, Rassismus, Genuss und Blackness“, Workshop “Das Sichtbare und das Verborgene - Diskurse über Rasse und Sexualität in der Moderne“, Göttingen University, February 2010.

“Sie hat wohl zuviel Schokolade gegessen: Racial Naming and Afro-German Resistance“, Annual Conference of the German Studies Association (GSA), Panel “Race in the German-Speaking Countries”, Washington, DC, October 2009. 

“Washington, DC, and New Orleans: Chocolate Cities in the United States”, International Workshop “E pluribus unum? Selling EthniCity: Urban Cultural Politics in the Americas”,  Zentrum für Interdisziplinäre Forschung (ZIF), Bielefeld University, May 2009.

“Constructing Blackness: Chocolate as a Racial Signifier in Historical and Cultural Perspective”, 6. Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA) Spring Academy, March 2009.

“Brown Like Chocolate? Analyzing a Racial Signifier in the United States and Germany”, International Conference „Race: Future of an Illusion, Future of the Past”, Monmouth University, New Jersey, November 2008.

“A Chocolate Body? An Analysis of the Discursive and Material Connections between Chocolate and Blackness”, Annual Conference of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien, Tutzing, February 2007.