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Young PoC Activism in East Germany - Reclaiming Identity and Political Space

Thank you for registering for the discussion "Young PoC Activism in East Germany: Reclaiming Identity and Political Space" at 2 PM (EST) and 7 PM (CET).
Please submit any questions to: katrin.bahr@centre.edu

Until today, East Germany is discussed and misunderstood as a homogenous, white society. Germany’s colonial past and the forms and modes of East German socialist internationalism have yet to find entry into historical accounts and public discourses. Nowhere are these questions more urgent than in the presence of international contract workers, political immigrants, and students, who were invited to East Germany to work and study, People of Color (PoC), and asylum seekers. These individuals and groups have left their mark on East German culture and society, assisted in writing the Wende. They and now their families keep defining East Germany's legacy.

This roundtable to which we have invited the offspring of East German PoC deals with questions of visibility, activism, racism and injustice. It is a new generation whose political activism highlights long ignored injustice and racism, assists in reuniting separated families, creates new communities, and confidently includes their (lineage) stories and intersectional identities into present debates.

Mar 14, 2021 02:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)