New Ethnic Studies
We propose „New Ethnic Studies“ aiming at positioning wider research on ethnicity in Latin America. We reject trends aiming at the uniqueness and homogenization in migration history. Instead, we support an approach which emphasizes the locally and nationally conditioned circumstances of ethnical identification.In this respect the process of becoming Italian Brazilian could resemble more the one of becoming German Brazilian than Italian Chilean. This approach of historians also reminds that the presence of groups resulting from (im)migration movements challenges the ideas of whiteness, indigenousness and/or blackness, which impact the contruction of national identities.
Current research projects
Current doctoral projects
Completed research projects
- Migrants, Refugees, and Asylum Seekers: Re-thinking Migration to Latin America and the New Ethnic Studies (Stefan Rinke und Raanan Rein)
- Rethinking the Auslandsdeutsche: Respatializing Historical Narrative (Stefan Rinke, Glenn Penny und Frederik Schulze)
- German Migrants and Migrating Knowledge in Latin American History (Stefan Rinke, Glenn Penny, Simone Lässig and Mario Peters
Completed doctoral projects
- Subalternización y discurso de la resistencia mapuche-williche en el siglo XX: los años de reorganización, 1979-1985 (Alejandro Cárcamo)
- Auswanderung und gescheiterte Kolonialdiskurse. ‚Deutschtum‘ in Südbrasilien (1824-1941) (Frederik Schulze)
- La representación del espacio y lugar en Mesoamérica” - El Lienzo Coixtlahuaca II (Seler II) en el Museo Etnológico de Berlin: correlación del registro topográfico con la realidad geográfica, el registro arqueológico y las fuentes etnohistóricas (Mónica Pacheco Silva)
- Escribiendo historia indígena como aliados del Rey Católico de España. Los anales nahuas de la ciudad de Puebla de Los Ángeles, siglos XVI-XVII" (Lidia Gómez García)