Abstract
Farbe Bekennen, a unique combination of personal histories, poems, group discussions, and scholarly texts, is the first published account by Afro-German women of the historical and contemporary aspects of their experience as outsiders in a white German society.' This is a volume that breaks many silences: the of isolation, the of nonor misidentification, the of self-denial. It is the result of Afro-German women from the FRG and the GDR coming together to identify themselves individually and collectively. The so-called children of the occupation (Besatzungskinder) have grown up and for the first time are speaking out against their (un)official status as a special problem (Sonderproblem). Here, Afro-German women of all ages unite in an effort to articulate the complexities of negotiating a viable position within German society. This courageous breaking of silence is important because it so effectively and poignantly exposes the prevailing and often blatant racism of their fellow citizens. Farbe Bekennen must also be read in the context of the emergence
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