Book Review/Volume 12.1

by Priscilla LayneTRANSIT vol. 12, no. 1 Download PDF Layne, Priscilla. White Rebels in Black: German Appropriation of Black Popular Culture. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press, 2018. 272 pages. What’s so rebellious about black culture? Over the course of the 20 th century, numerous works of German literature, film, art, and music have […]

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Book Review/Volume 11.2

BOOK REVIEW In Permanent Crisis: Ethnicity in Contemporary European Media and Cinema by İpek A. Çelik TRANSIT vol. 11, no. 2 Download PDF Çelik, İpek A. In Permanent Crisis: Ethnicity in Contemporary European Media and Cinema. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015. 206 pages. İpek A. Çelik begins In Permanent Crisis: Ethnicity in Contemporary […]

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Book Review/Translation/Volume 11.2

by Theodor Michael Translated by Eve Rosenhaft TRANSIT vol. 11, no. 2 Download PDF Michael, Theodor. Black German: An Afro-German Life in the Twentieth Century. Translated by Eve Rosenhaft, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2017. 216 pages. Who is a “statesman?” This is the principal question of Theodor Michael’s memoir Deutsch sein und Schwarz dazu. Erinnerung […]

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Book Review/Volume 9.2

Download PDF Abel, Marco. The Counter-Cinema of the Berlin School. Rochester: Camden House, 2013. 348 pages. Cloth, $90.00. Fisher, Jaimey. Christian Petzold. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2013. 208 pages. Paper, $22.00. “What is the Berlin School?” is the central question for Marco Abel’s most recent book, the first to address the recent trend […]

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