International Weeks against Racism
Text by Valerie Addae Tour: Colonial traces in Tanzania Park I 22.03.2025 The International Week against Racism has been held annually in the Hanseatic City of Hamburg since 2016.
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Literature
- Hamburg: Gateway to the Colonial World: Sites of Memory of (Post-)Colonial Globalization (Hamburger Beiträge zur Geschichte der kolonialen Globalisierung) by Jürgen Zimmerer and Kim Sebastian Todzi (editors)
- Hamburg: No place in the sun: places of remembrance of German colonial history by Jürgen Zimmerer (publisher)
- Faithful unto death. From German East Africa to Sachsenhausen. A life story by Marianne Bechhaus-Gerst
- Printed brochure "Verflechtungen. Colonial and Racist Thought and Action under National Socialism: Preconditions, Functions, Consequences. Materials for educational work" Neuengammer Studienhefte 5, published by the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial in cooperation with the University of Augsburg and the University of Hamburg, Hamburg 2019 (ISSN 2190-3158)
- Colonial monuments and historical consciousness: An examination of the colonial German culture of remembrance by Joachim Zeller
- Imaginary realms: On the Cultural History of German Colonialism by Birthe Kundrus (Editor)
- Brandy, Bibles and bananas: German colonialism in Africa - a search for traces by Heiko Möhle (editor)
- From Politics and Contemporary History: Colonialism (BPB)
Radio + Podcast
Digital resources
- The so-called "Tanzania Park", by Emma Dittler for Machtbewusst-Hamburg (Ossara e.V.)
- A grave in Tanzania - The Maji Maji War in the memory of the world by Charlotte Wiedemann (Le Monde diplomatique)
- Colonial and racist thought and action under National Socialism by Susann Lewerenz (pdf)
- Model project: Decolonial culture of remembrance in the city
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