#blackeurope

[inkosiclothingco]

Follow:@inkosifashion for #luxurystreetwear and more. #repost Posted @withregram • @ugomozie Jewels of Africa 🖤🌍 . | Repost | ”When looking at Renaissance art, one of the places we regularly find depictions of black people is in various painted expressions of the “Adoration of the Magi” theme. This particular one is by Maarten de Vos who painted this in 1599. Adoration of the Magi usually shows three wise kings visiting baby Jesus and offering him gifts, traditionally gold, frankincense and myrrh. The three wise men are often depicted as coming from three different parts of the world and here we see an extravagant Balthasar, the Moorish or African wise man. de Vos gives us a richly adorned and ornate magi, decked out in a gold crown and sceptor. He is accented with pearls in his crown and his ear. He crown shows us engraved gems as well as faceted stones. His gift is just as ornate and very appropriate for the Renaissance period: a nautilus shell in gold. These artistic items were favorites for collectors in the Renaissance, a union of nature’s perfection and man’s skill with gold.” - @justinkprim. Via @mina_stones #antiquity#blackeurope #royal #magi #inkosifashion https://www.instagram.com/p/CB1e1_2HJKE/?igshid=lix0vmo54v3v

[afropea]

#johnypitts @afropean, Notes from Black Europe • 2019 • (image: Paris metro by Johny Pitts) • • via @guardian: « The term “Afropean”, Johny Pitts writes at the beginning of this beguiling book, “encouraged me to think of myself as whole and unhyphenated ... Here was a space where blackness was taking part in shaping European identity at large. It suggested the possibility of living in and with more than one idea: Africa and Europe, or, by extension, the Global South and the West, without being mixed-this, half-that or black-other. That being black in Europe didn’t necessarily mean being an immigrant.” » #johnypitts #afropean #afropea #blackeurope https://www.instagram.com/p/Bz29WmwIhf_/?igshid=1e1c7zpn9p05a

[noiseaux]

"Legenden, die uns verborgen blieben" ("Legends that have been hidden from us") - A book about Black European historical personalities. They were famous in their times but we don't learn about them; how they shaped Europe's history is hidden from us. Germany likes to pretend that migration is a relatively new phenomenon, that Black people recently arrived, that we haven't been an integral part of Germany since before the place even got its name "Germany". Hint: where do y'all think emperor Hannibal found the elephants he brought over the Alpes with him when he conquered what is today Germany, 2000 years ago? Back to topic: The book features essays by Black German youth and grants us insight how they experienced the process to learn about these hidden legends. Highly recommend to everybody working with young people, for empowerment, European history, Black history and fruitful collaboration in general. . . . #blackhistory #dumas #empowerment #blackgermans #afrodeutsch #europeanhistory #blackeurope #alexandredumas

[noiseaux]

"A large number of Afro-Turks were among the half-a-million Muslims from Greece who were forcibly exchanged for a million Christians from Turkey in the population swap that came after the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne. For the Afro-Turks, the transfer represents “a second trauma” and a “second displacement,” explains Lulufer Korukmez, a Turkish academic who studied the group, at Ege University in Izmir. Ironically, one of the main promoters of the plan was League of Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Fridtjof Nansen, who believed that creating more ethnically homogeneous states would diminish forced displacement and war in the long run. Afro-Turks also went through “a powerful Turkification” with the founding of the Turkish Republic, which set in motion a process of “nation-building that subsumed and suppressed other consciousnesses,” explains Ehud Toledano, an expert on slavery in the Ottoman Empire at Tel Aviv University. “At the end of it all, of their old identity very little is left,” he remarks." #afroturks #afroturkish #blackgreek #turkishhistory #blackhistory #blackeurope #blackeuropeanhistory #blackturkey #LuluferKorukmez #apartheit #EhudToledano #OttomanEmpire #historyfacts #blackpresence #europeanhistory #schlandstudies article: https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/turkey/.premium-1.819072 truffle credit @knafehbaby

[ethnographiesofblacklife]

passeggiando (strolling), ep 1

afroitalians, italian citizenship, family sacrifices, lancôme & more

“The essays in this cluster explore the way that race is signified and the way that citizenship is embedded in multiple modalities for producing legitimacy.” in Notes on Cultural Citizenship In The Black Atlantic World by Kamari M. Clarke

[spanky606]

@Regrann from @africanrenaissancemovement - #Minoan fresco #1500B.C. #blackcivilizations #Europe #blackEurope #Minoans were black #Regrann