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Lester Sloan built a career photographing life around the world. His daughter works to preserve his legacy with the collection Captioning the Archives. 

In January, unknown assailants shot at the office of Senegalese-born German politician Karamba Diaby. Germany was shocked, but Afro-German politicians are otherwise rarely in the spotlight.

Of whiteness that has persisted throughout hundreds of years. frankly, this is information we're not taught so much in our textbooks. we're not always taught so much that jewish people and anti-semitism in premodern europe lasted for centuries. the jews themselves were racialized and taught as an other. we're not taught that there were afro germans, slavs, other groups that were also a target, not to the same extent as jewish people. this speaks to how much ignorance there is, frankly, about how race came to be today in the world. >> and it seems, what you are saying, is there is also an irony...

Tiffany Florvil, professor of History at The University of New Mexico, has received the Waterloo Centre for German Studies prize for her research in her book  Mobilizing Black Germany: Afro-German Women and the Making of a Transnational Movement .