Comparative scholarship, multilingual archives and research pathways connecting communities across Europe, including countries awaiting dedicated records.
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Silke Hackenesch (editor); Rosemarie H. Peña (chapter contributor)
Adoption Across Race and Nation: US Histories and Legacies brings together perspectives on adoption, racial power, family, and national belonging. Its chapters place individual…
Johny Pitts
Travel writing and reportage exploring Black communities, belonging and everyday life across Europe. German edition: Afropäisch – Eine Reise durch das schwarze Europa. Mentioned in UW–Madison’s Afropean 2026 programme.
Alexander G. Weheliye
Alexander G. Weheliye examines how racial power shapes who is recognized as fully human. Drawing centrally on Hortense Spillers and Sylvia Wynter, he brings Black feminist thought into debates about bodies, political violence, and the possibilities of life beyond racial hierarchies.
Kassaye MacDonald; Maureen McCauley; Leyla Angelidis
Lions Roaring Far from Home: A Global Anthology by Ethiopian Adoptees. Existing BGHRA 2023 recording connecting the Ethiopian adoptee writing already recommended by BGHRA.
The AN-YA Project; includes Rosemarie Peña
Black adult adoptees share distinct stories of identity, family, racism, and belonging. Includes Rosemarie Peña’s essay on Black German reunification and diaspora.
Priscilla Layne; Kasturi Chatterjee; Araba Johnston-Arthur
Queer Black German identity, Afrosurrealism, national belonging, archives, and mattering. BGHRA 2026 — Black Archives, Black Futures: Enfleshment. Existing BGHRA recording, cross-listed here for discovery.
ACRL European Studies Section
A librarian-curated starting point covering European regions and communities, with resources for archives, community organizations, scholarship and primary sources. Supports expansion into countries not yet represented by individual BGHRA records.
Sara Lennox
A study of Ingeborg Bachmann that places feminist interpretation in historical context. Useful for comparative work on literary representation, gender, power and changing approaches to feminist criticism.
Crystal A. Smith
A Christian community reading selection on identity, forgiveness, and finding meaning through difficult seasons.
Emilia Roig
A feminist critique of marriage, economic dependence and the social rules that shape intimacy.
Sharon Dodua Otoo; translation by Mirjam Nuenning; illustrations by Sita Ngoumou
A German collected edition of Otoo’s first two novellas, exploring family rupture, loss, colour and self-determination.
Sharon Dodua Otoo
A short story and free educational booklet about circles living among squares, belonging and exclusion. An accessible German adaptation is also linked on the author’s page.
Digital Black European Archive
A transnational, multilingual archive centering Black knowledge production. Includes the Afrogerman magazine Afrekete (1988–1990), connecting Black feminist periodical histories to the broader European record.
Sharon Dodua Otoo
The 2020 Klagenfurt address on literature, language and the power to describe people, examining racism and responsibility in literary expression.
Ylva Gustafsson, Camilla Kronqvist and Michael McEachrane (editors)
An edited philosophical collection exploring emotion, ethics and interpersonal understanding through approaches informed by Ludwig Wittgenstein.
Daniela Boettcher (article); Constance Jones (profile subject)
German-language magazine profile of NBC 6 South Florida anchor and BGHRA keynote speaker Constance Jones Simmons. The article, on page 20 of the July–September 2026 issue, explores her Stuttgart and Swabian roots, German-American life, journalism and connection to home through bread and baking. The publication link opens the article in the publisher’s free full-issue reader; Source & context opens the complete issue from its beginning.
Article: Daniela Boettcher. Photograph credited in the magazine: Constance Jones / privat. Publication: Florida Sun Magazine, issue 3/2026, page 20.
Heinrich Böll and Sharon Dodua Otoo; edited by Katharina Mevissen and Simon Wahlers
Otoo responds to Böll’s Doktor Murkes gesammeltes Schweigen through letters, messages and literary experiments: an imagined conversation across generations.
Sharon Dodua Otoo
A collection containing the Bachmann Prize-winning story, the Klagenfurt speech Dürfen Schwarze Blumen malen?, and an imagined journey to Klagenfurt with the author’s parents.
Sharon Dodua Otoo
Literary letters to Black women authors on grief and public memory. Listed as forthcoming in the BGHRA catalogue.
Mark Shackleton (editor); Rosemarie Peña (chapter contributor)
How are international adoption and adoptee lives represented in literature and culture? This edited collection brings literary and cultural analysis to questions of family,…
Layla Zami
Layla Zami explores how dance carries historical memory, responds to trauma, and opens possibilities for diasporic futures.
Emilia Roig
Roig reflects on love as a force connecting personal relationships, justice and collective life.
Emilia Roig
A letter to the next generation that places care and solidarity at the centre of social change.
Ngozi Okwuosa
Maik and Malaika prepare a yam harvest celebration for their grandfather in Ngozi Okwuosa’s picture book about family, tradition, and gratitude.
Ngozi Okwuosa
Maik and Malaika’s river adventure becomes a story of creative play, reuse, and caring for the environment in this picture book by Ngozi Okwuosa.
Ngozi Okwuosa
A lost rain boot turns autumn play into a shared adventure for Maik and Malaika in this picture book by German-Nigerian author Ngozi Okwuosa.
Ngozi Okwuosa
A Christmas Eve adventure with Maik and Malaika, bringing diverse children and family traditions into German-language reading for young learners.
Ngozi Okwuosa; illustrated by Kevin Martorano
Ngozi Okwuosa’s English-language picture book explores albinism, friendship, and belonging through Rapulu’s experience of exclusion and his friends’ response.
Nnedimma Okoli
Nnedimma Okoli’s debut novel follows a Nigerian mother in 1993 Mainz, opening conversations about Black family life, motherhood, migration, and the stories families preserve.
Ethelene Whitmire
A biography of the librarian, cultural organiser and activist whose work at the New York Public Library supported Harlem Renaissance writers and challenged unequal treatment. Mentioned in UW–Madison’s Afropean 2026 programme.
Sabrina Thomas; foreword by Robert J. Mrazek
A history of US policy toward the Vietnamese children of American fathers, examining citizenship, paternity, race and responsibility after the Vietnam War.
Sharon Dodua Otoo
An illustrated novella about Cee, whose world begins losing its colours. German translation by Mirjam Nuenning, illustrations by Sita Ngoumou; also available in English as The Original Story.
Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Jule Hillgärtner and Nele Kaczmarek (editors)
Bilingual artistic and scholarly responses to Amo, with contributions by Peggy Piesche, Paulin J. Hountondji and others. Connects philosophy, decolonization, erasure and contemporary art.
Ethelene Whitmire
A biography following a queer Black American scholar’s life in Europe, his relationship with a Danish scholar and his efforts to survive the Second World War. Mentioned in UW–Madison’s Afropean 2026 programme.
Daniel Thomas Cook (editor); Rosemarie Peña (contributor)
This four-volume encyclopedia introduces the concepts, debates, and research approaches that shape interdisciplinary childhood studies. Its entries span the social and cultural…
Sharon Dodua Otoo
A Black British woman rebuilds her life after the breakdown of her marriage. German title: die dinge, die ich denke, während ich höflich lächle; translated by Mirjam Nuenning.
Emilia Roig, Alexandra Zykunov and Silvie Horch (editors)
An edited collection of essays examining patriarchal habits and the possibilities of learning different ways to live.
Emilia Roig
Roig draws on family experience to examine intersecting forms of oppression and imagine solidarity.
Clementine Ewokolo Burnley and Sharon Dodua Otoo (editors)
An English-language anthology of winter stories set in German-speaking countries, with writing by Black authors including Otoo, Burnley, Elsa M’bala and Njideka Stephanie Iroh.