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  • ENTFÄLLT: Why Black Lives (Need to) Matter to Us in Germany


    Donnerstag, 23.02.2017 - 19:15 Uhr

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Talk by Prof. Greta Olson, Universität Gießen.

#BlackLivesMatter began in response to the deadly shooting of unarmed teenager Trayvonn Martin’s by a so-called neighborhood watch volunteer, who was subsequently acquitted of all murder charges on the basis of Florida’s Stand Your Ground Statute. The Movement has documented and publicly protested against the systematic racial profiling, abuse, discrimination of and violence against Black people by the police, within the justice system, and in U.S.-American society at large. #BlackLivesMatter needs to matter to us in Germany, where a rise in populist anti-migration sentiment has led to attacks on foreign-looking people and on asylum shelters. Longstanding prejudices concerning the innate criminality and excessive sexuality, particularly of Muslim migrants, have been re-activated after the events in Cologne during New Year’s Eve 2015. This talk by a Bindestrich-American-Deutsche asks about the lessons concerning violence and prejudice that ‘we’ Germans can learn from the U.S.-American movement. Greta Olson is Professor of English and American Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Giessen.

 

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