From Black to Schwarz explores the long and varied history of the exchanges between African America and Germany, with a particular focus on cultural interplay.

Covering a wide range of media of expression - music, performance, film, scholarship, literature, visual arts, reviews - these essays trace and analyze a cultural interaction, collaboration, and mutual transformation that began in the eighteenth century, boomed during the Harlem Renaissance/Weimar Republic, survived the Third Reich’s Degenerate Art campaigns, and (with new media available to further exchanges), is still increasingly empowering and inspiring participants on both sides of the Atlantic.