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An overview of [Black Europe] projects.

Hearing Ghosts: The Life & Times of Josephine Morcashani

hearing ghosts

Video short by Graham Riach introducing the international music hall star of the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, relating her to the conditions for Black British performance artists today.

African-American entertainers in pre-jazz Europe

talking europe

In this Talking Europe podcast, the historian Jeff Bowersox takes us to Central Europe around 1900, where the response to the arrival of Black American entertainers both confirmed and disrupted ideas of race and culture. 

Festival of Afro-European Arts, Performance & Scholarship

festival

This festival celebrated Black cultural production and critical inquiry and sought to explore the structures that make Blackness seem natural, self-evident, and variously foreign across Europe.