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For decades, American scholars have been studying one aspect or another of the African experience. From 1927 on, Professor Melville J. Herskovits used his field research and scholarly insights to fashion courses on Africa offered as part of the regular curriculum at Northwestern University. Northwestern and Indiana graduate students, and possibly others, were already completing distinguished Ph.D. dissertations in the late 1930s that were based on field research in Africa or other types of original data. What we generally mean by African studies developed at a later stage, when the scholarly interaction of specialists on Africa drawn from a number of disciplines is formalized through a structure established by their institution.

By offering a documented listing of names of African Americans and Native Americans who supported the cause of the American Revolution, we hope to inspire the interest of descendents in the efforts of their ancestors and in the work of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution

Prologue : African Americans in the German Democratic Republic / Victor Grossman -- An unexpected alliance : August Willich, Peter H. Clark, and the abolitionist movement in Cincinnati / Mischa Honeck -- German immigrants and African Americans in Charleston, South Carolina, 1850-1880 / Jeffery Strickland -- Louis Douglas and the Weimar reception of Harlemania / Leroy Hopkins -- Race in the Reich : the African American press on Nazi Germany / Larry A. Greene -- Field trip into the twilight : a German Africanist discovers the Black bourgeoisie at Howard University, 1937-1939 / Berndt Ostendorf -- Love across the color line : the limits of German and American democracy, 1945-1968 / Maria Höhn -- The erotics of African American endurance, or, On the right side of history : White (West)-German public sentiment between pornotroping and civil rights solidarity / Sabine Broeck -- "Nazi Jim Crow" : Hans Jürgen Massaquoi's democratic vistas on the Black Atlantic and Afro-Germans in Ebony / Frank Mehring -- A raisin in the East : African American civil rights drama in GDR scholarship and theater practice / Astrid Haas -- Ollie Harrington : his portrait drawn on the basis of East German (GDR) secret service files / Aribert Schroeder -- Exploding Hitler and Americanizing Germany : occupying "Black" bodies and postwar desire / Damani Partridge -- Reconstructing "America" : the development of African American studies in the Federal Republic of Germany / Eva Boesenberg.