Rezension
»This volume makes a meaningful contribution to the ever-growing field of Black European Studies. It effectively brings together activists and academics, reflecting the diversity of the field. It will undoubtedly be a useful resource for scholars of Black Europe.« ("Sophie Marie Niang, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 46 (2023)")
»As we make efforts at decolonizing the curriculum, this volume offers excellent interdisciplinary points of reference within and beyond literary studies, history, global/diaspora studies, European studies, Africana studies, and minority studies. It offers useful knowledge on Europe and its relationship with its past and present, and most importantly, it helps us understand and think about the current efforts at addressing structural racism and injustice.« ("Peter A. Ogunniran, The German Quarterly, 97 (2024)")
»Ein wichtiger Beitrag zu den Studien zum ›Schwarzen Afrika‹, weil die Zusammenschau, die der Band möglich macht, die nationale Orientierung zu überwinden trachtet und zeigt, dass ›[c]olonization was a panEuropean project‹.« ("Elisabeth Boesen, Hérmecht, 4 (2025)")
»This volume makes a meaningful contribution to the ever-growing field of Black European Studies. It effectively brings together activists and academics, reflecting the diversity of the field. It will undoubtedly be a useful resource for scholars of Black Europe.« ("Sophie Marie Niang, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 46 (2023)")
»As we make efforts at decolonizing the curriculum, this volume offers excellent interdisciplinary points of reference within and beyond literary studies, history, global/diaspora studies, European studies, Africana studies, and minority studies. It offers useful knowledge on Europe and its relationship with its past and present, and most importantly, it helps us understand and think about the current efforts at addressing structural racism and injustice.« ("Peter A. Ogunniran, The German Quarterly, 97 (2024)")
»An important contribution to studies on ›Black Africa‹, because the overview provided by this volume seeks to move beyond a national focus and demonstrates that ›[c]olonization was a pan-European project‹.« (translated from German) ("Elisabeth Boesen, Hérmecht, 4 (2025)")
Reviewed in: https://orbilu.uni.lu, 27.03.2023 InfoDienst Migration, 3 (2023)
Portrait
Natasha A. Kelly has a PhD in Communication Studies and Sociology with a research focus on visual communication, colonialism and feminism. The author, artist, curator and lecturer has taught at universities in Germany and Austria. Her numerous publications and art works combine theory and practice at the intersection of academia, art and society and focus on the past and present of Black Germany.
Olive Vassell she heads the Digital Media program at the University of the District of Columbia in Washington, D.C. She studied International Journalism at City University in the UK. Her research interests include the role of the media in defining Black Europeans. Working in both the UK and the US, she has been an award-winning journalist for more than 25 years. This has included stints at the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and the UK's Channel 4, as well as the historic Afro-American Newspaper in the US. In 2009, she founded euromight.com, the first Black European news site.
