Callaloo

This essay analyzes Black German articulations of identity through a close reading of the poetry of Germany's most prominent Black German literary and political figure, the late May Opitz-Ayim. Her reading of what she terms an "Afro-German counter-discourse" emphasizes the necessity of theorizing Black identity critically and comparatively in a manner that allows for understanding the similarities between different Black communities without the erasure or reification of important cultural differences.