The 'Black Horror on the Rhine'

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Focusing on the 'Black Horror' campaign, the book delves into its role in shaping racial discourse in early 20th-century Europe. Emerging in the 1920s in Germany, this racist campaign targeted French colonial troops, using media to propagate harmful stereotypes of black soldiers as threats to white women. Wigger analyzes how race, gender, nation, and class intersected to create a network of discrimination that resonated across Europe, the US, and Australia. The work provides a critical examination of a neglected aspect of popular racism and advocates for a historically informed understanding of its complexities.