Racing the Family Narrative: Black German Family Photography and the Stories Pictures (Won't) Tell

Thursday, March 28, 2013

Althouse 106   *5:00 P.M.*

Tina Campt: Professor of Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies and Director of African Studies Program, Barnard College--Columbia University

What historical 'truths' can we read in the visual archive of the African Diaspora in Germany? What narratives of nation, place and belonging do family photographs tell? What narratives do they challenge, dislodge or retell? This presentation uses family photography of Black Germans in the early twentieth century to tell an alternate narrative of race, nation, and diaspora.