Aminata Camara, Maya K., Lafia T., Oxana Chi and Layla Zami are middle-class, highly educated women in Germany and come from families of mixed African European heritages. This ethnographic study traces the coming of age as person of African descent in Germany born in the 1980s with a focus on the city of Frankfurt. Silvia Wojczewski follows the paths of five women and shows how the practice of travelling is used as a way to connect to transnational families and to an Afrodiasporic heritage. Zooming in on five lives, she reveals the ways in which class, diaspora and kinship relations influence how the women understand themselves and their position in the world.
Price: $60.00
Pages: 268
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Publication Date:
07 January 2025
Trim Size: 8.86 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783837673418
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography
Silvia Wojczewski works as a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Public Health at Medizinische Universität Wien. The social and cultural anthropologist did her doctorate at Université de Lausanne in Switzerland and was a co-convenor of the European Anthropology network Anthropology and Mobility (AnthroMob). Her research focuses on global care networks, feminist intersectionality and medical anthropology.
Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Abstract 7
Résumé 9
Acknowledgements 11
List of Figures 13
1. Introduction 15
Introduction 63
2. A history of African diaspora in Germany 67
3. Growing up in Frankfurt 91
4. Family affairs - an intergenerational approach to diaspora 117
5. Racism and its intersection with class and gender 133
Conclusion to Part I 147
Introduction 151
6. Maya B.: Building Afrodiasporic identity through travel 153
7. Lafia T.: The long journey to her father's land 169
8. Aminata Camara: Negotiating privilege, kinship and care in diasporic travel 185
Conclusion to Part II 199
Introduction 203
9. Life storytelling as Black and feminist political practice 205
10. Oxana Chi and Layla Zami: Connecting to global Blackness on the move 219
Conclusion to Part III 237
Conclusion 241
Epilogue 251
Bibliography 255
