Black German
Heritage &
Research Association
Teaching · Creativity · Community
BGHRA AT DAVIDSON
A teaching archive shaped by students, Black German voices, and the partnership of Dr. Emily Frazier-Rath and Dr. Rosemarie Peña.
Explore student work →Lasting connections.
Paintings, music, poetry, films, and reflections from the Davidson learning community.
Meet the students →Learning through art.
Connecting through people.
Discover paintings, music, poetry, films, and reflections shaped by BGHRA’s teaching partnership at Davidson.
Read the artist’s reflection →
The wrestlers.
The classroom.
The wider community.
“They encouraged their teammates to take our courses, carrying the relationships and conversations beyond the classroom.”
Rosemarie remembers the wrestlers as an important part of the learning community she and Emily built together. Their enthusiasm helped those connections grow.
The Sam – A Saxon educational tour created further opportunities to meet and learn from Black German actors and creators, including Malick Bauer.
Final projects & public presentations
Watch the students’ own contributions. Each recording opens on YouTube, with player controls for captions where available.
Davidson Student Roundtable
Students’ contributions to the 2023 BGHRA conference, moderated by Emily Frazier-Rath.
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Davidson Student Presentations & Discussion
Emily Frazier-Rath and students at the 2024 BGHRA conference.
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The Impacts of Transgenerational Trauma
Gavin Damasco, Steven Newell, and Garrett Stewart respond to the class conversation with Amal Abbass.
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Black German Art & Resistance: Poetry
Will Holden-Wingate, Kenny Eheman, and Owen Drometer present their group project.
Watch on YouTube ↗Courses grounded in community
Black German Art & Resistance
Literature, music, film, poetry, theater, and activism by Afro- and Black Germans. The course centers Black German voices and the work of BIPOC scholars while exploring identity, memory, representation, resistance, and solidarity.
Race, Gender, Migration
A learning community exploring race, gender, migration, citizenship, and belonging through the African diaspora in Europe. Students worked with BGHRA’s conferences, community participants, and archive.
A statement on the student work
The student work preserved here grew from the teaching partnership between Dr. Emily Frazier-Rath and Dr. Rosemarie Peña at Davidson College. In Black German Art & Resistance and Race, Gender, Migration, students learned through scholarship, creative work, and direct conversations with people speaking about their own lives, histories, and communities.
Their projects brought that learning into music, painting, poetry, film, and public presentations. Students considered how stories are told, whose perspectives are heard, and what responsibilities come with representing another person’s experience.
Davidson’s wrestlers were an important part of this learning community. As Rosemarie recalls, their enthusiasm led them to recommend the courses to teammates, extending the relationships and conversations beyond the classroom.
These works preserve the students’ contributions and offer glimpses of relationships whose lasting impact Emily and Rosemarie may never fully know.
