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Dr. Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson

Deputy Director
German Historical Institute
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Washington DC 20009
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Books: Monographs
  • Dreams and Nightmares: Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, and the Struggle for Black Equality in America. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2012.
  • Christian Science im Lande Luthers: Die Entwicklung einer amerikanischen Religions-gemeinschaft in deutschen Kontexten. Stuttgart: Steiner, 2009.
  • Gegenspieler: Malcolm X und Martin Luther King, Jr. Frankfurt a. M.: Fischer, 2000; 6th ed. 2010.
  • From Protest to Politics: Schwarze Frauen in der Bürgerrechtsbewegung und im Kongreß der Vereinigten Staaten. Frankfurt a. M.: Campus, 1998.

 

Books: Edited
  • The Transatlantic Sixties: Europe and the United States in the Counterculture Decade. Edited with Clara Juncker, Grzesiek Kosc, Sharon Monteith and Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson. Bielefeld: transcript (forthcoming).
  • Martin Luther King, Jr.: Leben, Werk, Vermächtnis. Edited with Michael Haspel. Weimar: Wartburg Verlag, 2008.
  • Europe and America: Cultures in Translation. Edited with Markus Hünemörder and Meike Zwingenberger. Heidelberg: Winter Verlag, 2006.

 

Journal Articles
  • (with F. Jelzelsberger) "Gedanken und Projektionen zum Besuch Barack Obamas in der Hauptstadt." AcademicWorld 26.7 (2008).
  • "In God We Trust: The Unique History and Current Role of Religion in America." Akademie-Vorträge 28 (May 2006): 1-27. Dillingen/Donau: Akademie für Lehrerfortbildung und Personalführung, 1-28.
  • "Who Are We? - Fears and Facts in Samuel Huntington's Attack on Latino-Immigration to the United States." Internationale Politik und Gesellschaft/International Politics and Society 3 (July 2004): 145-163.
  • "Are All Men Created Equal? Zur Kontroverse über die Legitimität der Sklaverei in den USA von der Unabhängigkeitserklärung bis zum Bürgerkrieg." Mitteilungen der Charles Sealsfield-Gesellschaft 12 (2003), 9-31.
  • "Fighting for the Party of Lincoln: Lugenia Gordon and the Freedom Republicans' Struggle for Fair Representation of African Americans in the Republican Party." FOCUS: The Monthly Magazine of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies (October 1994): 3-4.
  • "Ella Baker: A Leader Behind the Scenes." FOCUS: The Monthly Magazine of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies (August 1993): 3-8.

 

Chapters in Edited Collections
  • "‘We Shall Overcome': The Impact of the African American Freedom Struggle on Race Relations and Social Protest in Germany after World War Two." In The Transatlantic Sixties: Europe and the United States in the Counterculture Decade, edited by Clara Juncker, Grzesiek Kosc, Sharon Monteith and Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson. Bielefeld: transcript (forthcoming)
  • "How White is the White House: American Presidents and the Politics of Race." In The American Presidency and Political Leadership, edited by Wilfried Mausbach, Dietmar Schloss and Martin Thunert. Heidelberg: Winter, 2012.
  • "Abolitionist oder Pragmatist? Lincoln und die zeitgenössische Debatte über Sklaverei und die Gleichberechtigung schwarzer Amerikaner." In Lincoln und die Religion, edited by Michael Haspel and Jörg Nagler. Weimar: Wartburg, 2012.
  • "Does Every Vote Count in America? Emotions, Elections, and the Quest for Black Political Empowerment." In Emotions and American History, editbed by Jessica Gienow-Hech, 225-249. Berghahn, 2010.
  • "Barack Obama: Der erste afroamerikanische Präsident - A Dream Come True?" In Die amerikanischen Präsidenten, edited by Christof Mauch, 439-455. München: Beck Verlag, 2009.
  • "From Utopia to Dystopia? German Literary Images of America from the Jacksonian Era to the 1930s." In Schriftenreihe der Charles Sealsfield-Gesellschaft, edited by Günter Schnitzler und Waldemar Fromm, 171-192. Freiburg, i.Br.: Rombach, 2008.
  • "The Trumpet of Conscience: Das Vermächtnis von Martin Luther King." In Martin Luther King, Jr.: Leben, Werk und Vermächtnis, edited by Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson and Michael Haspel, 111-137. Weimar: Wartburg Verlag, 2008.
  • "Barack Obama und der Traum Martin Luther Kings: Zur Situation schwarzer Amerikaner und den 'Rassenbeziehungen' seit den 1960er Jahren." In Dossier USA, edited by Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, 10.10.2008.
  • "Die Fragwürdigkeit der These von der religiösen Spaltung." In Die Alte und die Neue Welt: Transatlantische Gespräche, edited by Berndt M Scherer and Sven Arnold,106-115. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2008.
  • "Looking Beyond Stereotypes: The Role and Perception of Religion in Europe and America." In Europe and America: Cultures in Translation, edited by Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson, Markus Hünemörder, and Meike Zwingenberger. Heidelberg: Winter Verlag, 2006.
  • "'When Israel was in Egypt's Land': Die politische Dimension der Black Church." In Politik und Religion in den USA. Manfred Brocker, 109-132. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2005, 109-132.
  • "Von Affen, Waldmännern und Wechselbälgern: Koloniale Stereotypen bei Sealsfield und ihr kulturwissenschaftlicher Kontext." In Schriftenreihe der Charles Sealsfield-Gesellschaft XIV, edited by Günter Schnitzler and Waldemar Fromm, 129-170. Freiburg i.Br.: Rombach, 2004.
  • "'Strong People Don't Need Strong Leaders!' - Ella Jo Baker and the Role of Black Women in the Civil Rights Movement." In The Civil Rights Movement Revisited: Critical Perspectives on the Struggle for Racial Equality in the United States, edited by Patrick B. Miller, Therese Steffen, and Elisabeth Schäfer-Wünsche, 87-104. Hamburg: LIT, 2001.
  • "Revolutsiooni vaimustunud kaasaegne Abigail Adams, 1744-1818." In Mrs. President: Martha Washingtonist - Hillary Clintonini, edited by Philipp Gassert and Christof Mauch. Talinn: Huma, 2002 (Estonian ed.).
  • "Angazovana svedkyne revoluce: Abigail Adamsova." In Prvni Damy Ameriky: Od Marthy Washingtonove po Hillary Clintonovou, edited by Philipp Gassert and Christof Mauch. Prague: Makladatelstvi Brana, 2001 (Czech ed.).
  • "Abigail Smith Adams: Engagierte Zeitzeugin der Revolution."In Mrs. President: Von Martha Washington bis Hillary Clinton, edited by Christof Mauch and Philipp Gassert, 42-53. Stuttgart, München: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 2000 (German ed.).
  • "I Have A Dream: Die politische Repräsentation der schwarzen Minderheit in den USA." In Hannoversche Schriften 2: Kritik des Ethnonationalismus, edited by Detlev Claussen, Oskar Negt, and Michael Werz, 161-177. Frankfurt a. M.: Verlag Neue Kritik, 2000.
  • "The Struggle Continues: Black Women in Congress in the 1990s." In Gender in the Civil Rights Movement, edited by Peter Ling, 239-260. New York: Garland, 1999 and New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2004.
  • "Black Separatism as an Alternative to the Goal of Racial Integration: A Comparison of the Nation of Islam and the Black Power Movement of the 1960s." In The American Nation: National Identity and Nationalism, edited by Knud Krakau, 263-282. Münster: LIT, 1997.

 

Encyclopedia Entries
  • "Abolitionism." In USA Lexikon, edited by Christof Mauch and Rüdiger Wersich. Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag (forthcoming 2013).
  • "Christian Science/Church of Christ, Scientist." In USA Lexikon, edited by Christof Mauch und Rüdiger Wersich. Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag (forthcoming 2013).
  • "Henry Miller - The Cattle King of California." In Immigrant Entrepreneurship: German-American Business Biographies, 1720 to the Present, vol. 2, edited by William J. Hausman. German Historical Institute, forthcoming 2013.

 

Book Reviews