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title: "How Germany is in denial of its historical racism today"
date: 2021-12-21
url: "https://www.schirn.de/en/schirnmag/how-germany-is-in-denial-of-its-historical-racism-today-kara-walker-2021-context-en/"
description: "Is it possible to talk about an ordinary German experience as a structurally racialized experience? Activist and cultural theorist Nelly Y. Pinkrah on structural discrimination in the U.S. and Germany."
image: "https://www.schirn.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/header_800px-James_Baldwin_10_Allan_Warren.jpg"
language: "en-US"
---

# How Germany is in denial of its historical racism today