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I’m Dr. Tiffany Florvil and I am an award-winning cultural historian of 20th-century Germany with wide-ranging interests and specializations in Modern European History, African/Black Diaspora Studies, as well as Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. My research interests also include Black Europe, Black internationalism, social movements, intellectualism, transnationalism, and human rights. Please learn more about my research and teaching on this website.

 
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I examine the role of queer and straight women in shaping the contours of the modern Black German movement as part of the Black internationalist opposition to racial and gender oppression. I show the multifaceted contributions of women to movement making, including Audre Lorde's role in influencing their activism; the activists who inspired Afro-German women to curate their own identities and histories; and the evolution of the activist groups Initiative of Black Germans and Afro-German Women. Richly researched and multidimensional in scope, Mobilizing Black Germany offers a rare in-depth look at the emergence of the modern Black German movement and Black feminists' politics, intellectualism, and internationalism.

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“When I dare to be powerful — to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
— Audre Lorde, Second Sex Conference, New York
 
 
 

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