Dekolonisation
As the biggest commercial city in Tanzania today, Dar es Salaam features a number of German colonial memory sites which range from buildings, statues to open spaces. Formerly existing as a small caravan town exclusively owned by the Arab Sultan of Zanzibar, Dar es Salaam was further developed by the Germans who used it as their capital (Hauptstadt) beginning in the late 19th century. After the WWI, the city continued to serve as the capital in British mandate period until it was inherited by the independent government of Tanzania in 1961.
Ohne afroamerikanische Geschichte kann die amerikanische Geschichte und Gegenwart nicht verstanden werden. Christine Knauer zeichnet in ihrem Beitrag die Genese der afroamerikanischen Geschichtsschreibung nach und verweist auf die enge Verknüpfung von Geschichtsschreibung, Freiheitskampf und Bürgerrechtsbewegung im 19. und besonders im 20. Jahrhundert. Sie beschreibt die derzeitigen Forschungsansätze und -trends in der afroamerikanischen Historiografie, die auch in der europäischen sowie deutschen Amerikaforschung zunehmend bearbeitet werden.
African American History
(2023)
America’s past and present cannot be understood without taking into account the history of African Americans. Christine Knauer traces the genesis of African American historiography and points out the close link between historiography, the fight for freedom and the civil rights movement in the nineteenth and especially the twentieth century. She describes the current trends and research approaches in African American historiography, ones increasingly being adopted in Europe and Germany in the context of American studies.