'Black Shame' - the campaign against 'racial degeneration' and female degradation in interwar Europe

The ‘Black Shame’ campaign used stereotypical images of ‘racially primitive’, sexually depraved black colonial soldiers threatening ‘white women’ in 1920s Germany to manufacture widespread concern and generate panic about the presence of tens of thousands of occupying French troops from colonial Afr...

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Main Author: Iris Wigger
Format: Default Article
Published: 2010
Subjects:
Sociology not elsewhere classified
Other human society not elsewhere classified
Other language, communication and culture not elsewhere classified
African troops
Black stereotypes
French colonial soldiers
Gender and sexuality
German womanhood
nation
'Rhineland bastards'
Language, Communication and Culture not elsewhere classified
Studies in Human Society not elsewhere classified
Sociology
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2134/14785
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