Dr. Priscilla Layne is professor of German, adjunct associate professor of African and Afro-American Studies, and director of the Center for European Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author of two books. White Rebels in Black: German Appropriation of Black Popular Culture examines how, following WWII, German artists often associated white, rebellious male characters with black popular culture, because black culture functioned as a metaphor for rebellion. Her second book, Out of this World: Afro-German Afrofuturism, focuses on Afro-German authors’ use of Afrofuturist concepts in literature and theater. She received her PhD in German studies from the University of California at Berkeley.
Episode 123: An Expanding German Memory Culture
For decades, memory culture in Germany has largely focused on coming to terms with and memorializing the Holocaust. In recent years, however, memory discourses have expanded to include, among others, …
