What is the relationship between race, gender and capitalism? The role of motherhood in racial capitalism and the scientification of the “Ghetto economy” serve as two intersecting lenses in this project that provide new perspectives on the history of capitalism since the late 1960s. (Nadja Klopprogge)

This project deals with the Intimate Histories of African Americans and Germany between 1933 and 1990. Its point of departure are interpersonal constellations that crossed not only the Atlantic but the color line, and at times the fault lines of the Cold War. (Nadja Klopprogge)

This book project (Habilitation) retraces the history of the meaning, making, and presentation of ‘Africana’ across the Atlantic from the late 19^th to the early 21^st century. (Nadja Klopprogge)