White Rebels in Black(English, Hardcover, Layne Priscilla Dionne)

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White Rebels in Black(English, Hardcover, Layne Priscilla Dionne) is written by Layne Priscilla Dionne and published by The University of Michigan Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0472130803 (ISBN 10) and 9780472130801 (ISBN 13).

Analyzing literary texts and films, White Rebels in Black shows how German authors have since the 1950s appropriated black popular culture, particularly music, to distance themselves from the legacy of Nazi Germany, authoritarianism, and racism, and how such appropriation changes over time. Priscilla Layne offers a critique of how blackness came to symbolize a positive escape from the hegemonic masculinity of postwar Germany, and how black identities have been represented as separate from, and in opposition to, German identity, foreclosing the possibility of being both black and German. Citing four autobiographies published by black German authors Hans Juergen Massaquo, Theodor Michael, Guenter Kaufmann, and Charly Graf, Layne considers how black German men have related to hegemonic masculinity since Nazi Germany, and concludes with a discussion on the work of black German poet, Philipp Khabo Koepsell.