Audre Lorde's Influence On Afro-German

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Seen as a cultural model/mother, as well as a feminist fellow, Audre Lorde has vertically, horizontally and obliquely transmitted black American feminist cultural practices of protest, different attitudes towards racial issues, social mobility and even altruistic behavior to black Germans specially Ayim. “With Lorde’s promoting, Afro-Germans began to examine their history” (Michaels, “The Impact of Audre Lorde’s Politics and Poetics on Afro-German Women Writers” 26). Therefore, Ayim was encouraged to search Afro-German history thus preparing for her M.A. thesis. Though black Americans and black Germans live in the same geomental community, sharing the first part of an identity, differences in their physical environment make cultural transmission and adaptation easier (Schönpflug, “Introduction to Cultural Transmission: Psychological, Developmental, Social, and Methodological Aspects” 4-5).

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Germans refused adoption because of negative biological inheritances. White Americas interested in adoption highlighted the possibility of positive environmental impact which can lead to child improvement (Fehrenbach, Race After Hitler 137). After a lot of discussions and law amendments, it seemed that neither West Germans nor U.S. officials “were eager to claim responsibilities for the children and the social problem they were perceived to embody” (Fehrenbach, Race After Hitler 142). Individual efforts were exerted to adopt colored children. An example is Mabel Grammer who, and her husband, adopted “eleven German children” (Fehrenbach, Race After Hitler 148). Moreover, “she doubtless arranged well over a thousand adoptions all told” (Fehrenbach, Race After Hitler 148). However, she was depicted as a negative example of risking children’s future (Fehrenbach, Race After Hitler

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