The 'Black Horror on the Rhine'

Intersections of Race, Nation, Gender and Class in 1920s Germany

Bibliographic Data

ID23243266
AuthorsIris Wigger (0000-0002-9443-8438, corresponding author)
Year2017
Publication date2017-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
Venue'Black Horror on the Rhine' (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1057/978-1-137-31861-9
OpenAlexW2770353622
ISBN9781137318619
Open LibraryOL35808931M
LanguageEN
Citations received12

This book explores the 'Black Horror' campaign as an important chapter in the popularisation of racialised discourse in European history. Originating in early 1920s Germany, this international racist campaign was promoted through modern media, targeting French occupation troops from colonial Africa on German soil and using stereotypical images of 'racially primitive', sexually depraved black soldiers threatening and raping 'white women' in 1920s Germany to generate widespread public concern about their presence. The campaign became an international phenomenon in Post-WWI Europe, and had followers throughout Europe, the US and Australia. Wigger examines the campaign's combination of race, gender, nation and class as categories of social inclusion and exclusion, which led to the formation of a racist conglomerate of interlinked discriminations. Her book offers readers a rare insight into a widely forgotten chapter of popular racism in Europe, and sets out the benefits of a historically reflexive study of racialised discourse and its intersectionality.

Colonialism · German · Inclusion (mineral) · Intersectionality · Political science · Race (biology) · Racism · Sociology · White (mutation) · European history and politics · Gender Studies · History · Law · 15.70 history of Europe · Allied Occupation of Germany (1918-1930) fast (OCoLC)fst01351651 (uri) http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst01351651 · Black Soldiers · Diplomatic relations · foreign relations · France · Germany · race relations · Social conditions · Soldiers

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