White Rebels in Black: German Appropriation of Black Popular Culture (Social History, Popular Culture, And Politics In Germany) Journalists curious eccentrics―from the Brooklyn Bridge

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White Rebels in Black: German Appropriation of Black Popular Culture (Social History, Popular Culture, And Politics In Germany) Journalists curious eccentrics―from the Brooklyn BridgeAnalyzing 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