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Palestine and German Studies
As we write this post, Israel is systematically displacing, maiming, and murdering Palestinians. At the same time, a global web of power structures is actively suppressing solidarity campaigns with Palestine and Palestinians. State representatives, police agents, and university administrators (among others) form an assemblage of power that reinforces the delegitimation of collective struggles for Palestinian liberation.
In Germany, the anti-immigrant left is on the rise. Will it hold back the far right – or help it?
Well-known MP Sahra Wagenknecht has announced plans for a new party that could shift the fragile balance of German politics
Germany leads rising anti-Black racism in the EU — study
Black people in the EU are experiencing higher levels of harassment and discrimination than six years ago. Anti-Black racism was the highest in Germany.
Racism, bias, and discrimination in Germany
Almost everyone in Germany is convinced that racism is a problem here, according to recent studies. Everyday racism manifests itself not only in physical acts of violence and verbal attacks. People who clearly have a migrant background also experience discrimination at school, in sports clubs or when looking for housing. A number of organizations exist for people who have experienced discrimination and want advice.
A Berlin subway stop is called ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin.’ Some Black Germans want change.
Most outbound commuters on the U3 line of Berlin’s U-Bahn subway system exit long before reaching the penultimate stop, nestled between the Grunewald forest and the Free University. But Moses Pölking remembers the uneasiness he felt when he was riding the train and first spotted the station’s peculiar name on the route map: Onkel Toms Hütte.
Racism in Germany is part of everyday life
Most Germans recognize that racism exists in their society, affecting not only minorities but everybody who lives here. The country's first National Discrimination and Racism report has found some surprising results.
How 2nd-generation migrants struggle to succeed
Germany wants Ukrainian refugees to be integrated into its labor market swiftly. But the experience of previous generations of migrants and their children shows climbing the economic ladder isn’t always easy for those with an immigrant background.
What's life really like for black people in Germany?
What's life really like for black people in Germany?
‘I Will Never Be German’: Immigrants and Mixed-Race Families in Germany on the Struggle to Belong
Three decades since the Berlin Wall fell, Germans remain deeply divided over the question of what it means to be German. In an article marking the 30th anniversary of Germany’s unification, Katrin Bennhold, The Times’s Berlin bureau chief, examines the renewed debate over German identity.
