{"id":4829,"date":"2012-10-02T00:59:04","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T00:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/?p=4829"},"modified":"2012-10-30T19:23:53","modified_gmt":"2012-10-30T19:23:53","slug":"workshop-on-racism-and-the-image-of-africa-in-german-schools-a-call-for-papers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/?p=4829","title":{"rendered":"Workshop on Racism and the Image of Africa in German Schools: A Call for Papers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elina-marmer.com\/images\/Bilder\/buchauszug.jpg\" alt=\"buchauszug\" width=\"250\" height=\"182\" \/><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Deadline: October 15th, 2012.<\/span><\/strong> Racism at school is a topic which gains more attention of social scientists in Germany. \u00a0Indeed, \u00ab the image of Africa in German textbooks and curricula is based on racist stereotypes, which can be traced back to the colonial era when dehumanisation of African people served to justify the colonisation of their continent. Poverty, violence and underdevelopment are the prevailing images of Africa in German history and geography textbooks. Pre-colonial African history, African cultures and philosophies are not covered by the Eurocentric curriculum. Classic and modern western literature is interspersed with stereotypes about African people; these stereotypes often pass uncommented by the teachers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This project investigates the portrayal of Africa in German textbooks and teaching materials and the impact of this portrayal on racism against the ethnic minority students of African descent in German schools. \u201cScientific racism\u201d, as a legitimization for colonisation, exploitation and slavery has long been disproved; however, it still remains an inherent part of today\u2019s European portrayal of Africa. \u201cAfrica\u201d is usually constructed based on European norms, refusing Africans and their descendants the reconstruction of historical facts. In constructing Africa, History, in its most human aspect, seems to be denied to Africans and their descendants who lack the essential attributes that define \u201cHumanity\u201d in \u201cWestern culture\u201d in general and in \u201cEuropean culture\u201d in particular. The \u201chistorical rationality\u201d (Hegelian view) denying the Humanity to Africans can be found in the passages of many German textbooks subtly teaching students that Africans are \u201csavages\u201d with a \u201cpre-logical mentality\u201d living their \u201cprimitive life\u201d.\u00a0(<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Source: Elina Marmer, Feb. 2012<\/span>)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The present workshop will be held in German. However, contributions in English will be accepted if they are in accordance with established academic standards. The organizers and particularly <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Dr. Elina Marmer<\/strong><\/span> have been working on that field since years. For details on her research interest and publications:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.elina-marmer.com\"> www.elina-marmer.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For students and researchers willing to submit a paper, the Call for Papers is available at the following link:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/CALL-FOR-PAPERS-RASSISMUS-UND-AFRIKADARSTELLUNG-IN-DER-SCHULE.pdf\">CALL FOR PAPERS- RASSISMUS UND AFRIKADARSTELLUNG IN DER SCHULE<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Source of the picture: www.elina-marmer.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deadline: October 15th, 2012. Racism at school is a topic which gains more attention of social scientists in Germany. \u00a0Indeed, \u00ab the image of Africa in German textbooks and curricula is based on racist stereotypes, which can be traced back to the colonial era when dehumanisation of African people served to justify the colonisation of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcement","category-regional-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4829"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4829"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4832,"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4829\/revisions\/4832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}