In Audre’s Footsteps

Transnational Kitchen Table Talk

Heidi R. Lewis, Dana Maria Asbury, Jazlyn Andrews

• Publisher: edition assemblage
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN:
  9783960421115
• eBook ISBN:
  9783960428237
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Black Studies
• Index: Social Sciences

In Audre's Footsteps amplifies the resistive and generative experiences of women of color educators, artists, activists, and scholars in Berlin and the U.S. who consider themselves friends in the struggle. In Audre's Footsteps honors Black radical traditions set forth by W.E.B. Du Bois, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Dr. Angela Y. Davis, and Audre Lorde, all who were intellectually influenced by their experiences in Berlin. The text primarily relies on Black and Transnational Feminist theoretical frameworks and methodologies to amplify the resistive and generative personal and professional experiences of women of color educators, artists, activists, and scholars in Berlin and the U.S. who consider themselves friends in the struggle. While being particularly attentive to racism, heterosexism, colonialism, and other forms of oppression, In Audre's Footsteps also examines how these women resist, reject, and revise oppressive narratives as they develop their subjectivities. Further, it addresses the always advantageous but sometimes contentious contours of solidarity, especially when people actively engaging with various forms of resistance have seemingly competing and contradictory goals.

INDEX

Academia / college / PH.D. 23-24, 43-44, 54, 61, 69, 72, 81-83, 85-88

ADEFRA 20-21, 30

A Different World 83

Africa 37, 54-55, 57, 65, 79, 99, 102

African American 68, 83

Afrofuturism 31

Afro-German / Black German 20-23, 25, 65, 68, 70, 74-75, 101-102, 104

Angela Y. Davis 26, 54-56

Anita Hill 92, 94

anti-Black / anti-Blackness 37, 39, 52, 102

Audre Lorde 13, 20-22, 24-29, 36, 44, 55, 103-104

Bell hooks hooks 44, 58

Berlin Wall / the Wall 26, 94-96

Bill Cosby / The Cosby Show 83, 98

Black / Blackness 13, 18, 20-26, 29-32, 34, 36-42, 44-45, 49-52, 54-60, 63-66, 68, 70-80, 89-90, 94-102, 104-105

Black feminism / Black feminists 18-19, 24, 26, 29, 32, 34, 41-44, 52, 55, 97

Black history 21-22, 63

Black Lives Matter 50, 60

Black Panther Party 56

Black Power 64

Black Queer politics 13, 32

Black sexual politics 32

Civil Rights Movement / Civil Rights 63

Clarence Thomas 92, 94, 97

crack cocaine 94, 98

colonialism / colonization 47, 50, 54-57, 65-66

colorism / dark skin / light skin 37, 73-75

Dagmar Schultz 21, 25

Each One Teach One 21, 102

East Berlin 96

East Germany / East German 26

empowerment / empowering 18, 22, 74, 88-89

Family / ancestors 18-19, 24, 29, 31, 45, 52-53, 55, 58, 62-63, 69, 86, 89-91, 94-95, 97-101

Farbe bekennen: Afro-deutsche
Frauen auf den Spuren ihrer
Geschichte / Farbe bekennen or
Showing Our Colors: Afro-German
Women Speak Out 20-21, 25, 104

FemGeniuses in Berlin 13-14, 16, 26-28, 103

feminist / feminism 18-19, 24, 26, 29, 32, 34, 41-44, 51, 55, 60, 66, 89, 92-93, 97

Gender non-conforming /gender independent 30-31

Hidden Spaces, Hidden Narratives:
Intersectionality Studies in Berlin 13, 18, 22, 24, 70

Identity / identity politics 30, 41, 54, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77-79, 82, 94, 96, 99-100, 102

Initiative Schwarze Menschen in
Deutschland / ISD /
Initiative Black People in Germany 20-21

Invisible Woman 21, 25

Jewish 67

Joliba Interkulturelles Netzwerk 21

Knowledge / knowledge production 18, 26, 29, 43, 49-52, 54, 63, 65, 74, 76, 81-82, 88, 91, 103

Katharina Ogunt...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Copyright
• Contents
• Dr. Heidi R. Lewis: Acknowledgements
• Dana Maria Asbury: Acknowledgements
• Preface
• Foreword
• Introduction
• Creating spaces to fully express our blackness
• We have to stop solely reacting
• I’m not here to save your soul
• I’m challenging them to see
• Integration isn’t even what we’re demanding
• That’s my girl
• We’re here to connect and do intersectional work
• A love letter to katharina oguntoye: an afterword
• The contributors
• Endnotes
• Index