Who Can Speak and Who Is Heard/Hurt?: Facing Problems of "Race," Racism, and Ethnic Diversity in the Humanities in Germany (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783837641035)

Mahmoud Arghavan coordinates the unit for Help for Refugees, Migration, and Integration at the Inner Mission in Munich. He was an adjunct lecturer at the American studies department of the University of T?ingen. His research interests include diaspora studies, postcolonial studies, critical race theory, and border studies.

Nicole Hirschfelder is an associate professor at the American studies department at the University of T?ingen and an associate member of the collaborative research center (Sonderforschungsbereich) 923 "Threatened Order - Societies Under Stress". She was a visiting professor at the University of Maryland in 2016. Her main areas of scholarship (figurational sociology, inequality, and the Civil Rights Movement) inform her collaborations with schools that strive to facilitate dialogues about the specific meanings of the Black Lives Matter movement in the U.S. and Germany.

Luvena Kopp teaches film, literature, and cultural studies at the University of T?ingen. Her research interests include concepts of figurational sociology, power relations, and the films of Spike Lee.

Katharina Motyl is a postdoctoral scholar at the American studies department of the University of T?ingen and a member of the collaborative research center (Sonderforschungsbereich) 923 "Threatened Order - Societies under Stress". Her research focuses on Arab American literature, global Arab and Muslim perspectives on the War on Terror, the sociocultural history of drugs and addiction, African American expressive culture as well as Native American cultures and knowledge systems.