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Showing Our Colors: Afro-German Women Speak Out is an English translation of the German book Farbe bekennen edited by author May Ayim, Katharina Oguntoye, and Dagmar Schultz. It is the first published book by Afro-Germans.
The book Showing Our Colors (Farbe Bekennen) is a landmark in the Afro-German movement that not only introduced Black German women’s issues to the public, but also played an integral role in the development of an Afro-German community.
Farbe bekennen ist eine deutsche Redensart und bedeutet so viel wie „sich zu einer Sache bekennen“ oder „seine Meinung offen sagen“. Der Ausdruck kommt aus dem Bereich des Kartenspiels und ist seit dem 18. Jahrhundert gebräuchlich.
Farbe Bekennen tellingly presents the particular effects of racism in the lives of thirteen contemporary Black German women. And with the research of May Opitz, it also
Dec 10, 2019 · Lorde’s early work with the Afro-German women she met resulted in the publishing of Farbe Bekennen, in English, Showing Our Colors: Afro-German Women Speak Out in 1986. It was the first book published in Germany that treated Afro-Germans as a national identity.
Jan 1, 2001 · Farbe Bekennen is a compilation of texts, testimonials and other secondary sources. The collection focuses on the acts of racism and sexism that Afro-German women (and people in general) are exposed to in their day to day lives.
Sep 18, 2019 · As a result of the encounter with activist and poet Audre Lorde in the mid-1980s in Berlin, May Opitz (later Ayim), Katharina Oguntoye, and Dagmar Schulz published Farbe Bekennen: Afro-Deutsche Frauen auf den Spuren ihrer Geschichte [Showing Our Colors: Afro-German Women Speak Out (1992)].
