Publications

Books

• Black Germany: Schwarz, deutsch, feministisch - die Geschichte einer Bewegung (Ch. Links Verlag, 2023).

• Rethinking Black German Studies: Approaches, Interventions and Histories (Peter Lang Press, 2022 pb, 2018 hb).

• Mobilizing Black Germany: Afro-German Women and the Making of a Transnational Movement (University of Illinois Press, 2020). Awards and Recognition: Winner of the Waterloo Centre for German Studies (WCGS) First Book Prize, 2021; Finalist for ASWAD’s Outstanding First Book Prize, 2021; Honorable Mention for the DAAD/GSA Book Prize in Literature and Cultural Studies, German Studies Association, 2021; “The Best Black History Books of 2020,” Black Perspectives

Other Writings

• Craig Griffths, Samuel Clowes Huneke, and Anna von der Goltz in conversation with Kerstin Brückweh and Richard F. Wetzell, “New Research on Social Movements in Cold War Germany: A Roundtable,” Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, no. 72 (Fall 2023): 3-30.

• “May Ayim’s Cosmopolitanism from Below in Europe,” History Workshop, October 2, 2023.

• “Feminism and Activism Across Borders: A Roundtable” with Katharine M. Marino and Mona L. Siegel, Peace & Change vol. 48, no. 2 (April 2023): 90-102.

• “May Ayim’s ‘Wake Work,’” “Black German Studies,” Special Issue, The German Quarterly, vol. 95, no. 4 (Fall 2022): 448-50 

• Kaiama L. Glover, Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel, Katharina M. Marino, Robin Mitchell, Jacqueline-Bethel Mogoué, and Samantha Pinto, “New Directions in Feminism and Global Race Studies: A Book Conversation,” Signs, vol. 47, no. 4 (Summer 2022): 1013-40.

• “Zur Beständigkeit der Graswurzel. Transnationale Perspektiven auf Schwarzen Antirassismus im Deutschland des 20. Jahrhunderts,” Special Issue “(Anti-)Rassismus,” Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte (APuZ) 70, no. 42-44 (Oktober 2020): 33-38.

• Guest editor, “Transnational Civil Rights and Antiracist Activism,” in Journal of Civil and Human Rights vol. 4, no. 1 (Spring/Summer 2018): 1-4.

• “Race and Intersectionality,” “Forum on Feminism in German Studies,” in The German Quarterly vol. 91, no. 2 (Spring 2018): 207-09.

Chapters in Edited Volumes (Peer Reviewed)

• “Connected Differences: Black German Feminists and their Transnational Connections in the 1980s and 1990s,” in Friederike Bruehoefener, Karen Hagemann, and Donna Harsch, eds. Gendering Post-1945 German History: Entanglements (Berghahn Books, 2019), 229-49.

• “Distant Ties: May Ayim’s Transnational Solidarity and Activism,” in Keisha N. Blain and Tiffany M. Gill, eds. To Turn this Whole World Over: Black Women and Internationalism (University of Illinois Press, 2019), 74-97.

• “Transnational Feminist Solidarity, Black German Women, and the Politics of Belonging,” in Toyin Falola and Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso, eds. Gendering Knowledge in Africa and the African Diaspora: Contesting History and Power (Routledge, 2017), 87-110.

• “Emotional Connections: Audre Lorde and Black German Women,” in Stella Bolaki and Sabine Broeck, eds. Audre Lorde’s Transnational Legacies (University of Massachusetts Press, 2015), 135-147.

Public Writing

• “Seeing May Aim through Her Friends’ Eyes,” Black Perspectives, June 13, 2022.

• “Writing on the Legacy of May Ayim,” Black Perspectives, June 3, 2022.

• “Queer Memory and Black Germans,” The New Fascism Syllabus: Exploring the New Right Through Scholarship and Civic Engagement, June, 8, 2021. 

• “A New Day Dawns in Germany: Black Queer Women Resuscitating Darkness in the Urban Space,” Nocturnal Unrest, May 20, 2021 (co-written with Jeannette Oholi and Vanessa Plumly). 

• “Black Germans and New Forms of Resistance,” Black Perspectives, May 17, 2021.  

• “Beyond Shorelines: Audre Lorde’s Queered Belonging,” Black Perspectives, February 15, 2021. 

• “Anti-racism Protests and Black Lives in Europe,” Historian Speaks, June 28, 2020.

• “On The International Book Fair of Radical Black and Third World Books,” Black Perspectives, June 26, 2019.

• (with Vanessa Plumly), “Why does Black German Studies Matter Now?,” Diversity, Decolonization, and the German Curriculum, April 22, 2019.

• “Rethinking Black History Month in Germany,” Black Perspectives, February 20, 2019.

• “Black German Women and the Fifth Cross-Cultural Black Women’s Studies Summer Institute,” Black Perspectives, January 17, 2018.