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Moderation of the reading with Alice Hasters

"Can I touch your hair?", "Can you get sunburnt?", "Where are you from?". People who ask such questions usually don't mean any harm. But still: they are racist. As to why, white people often don't want to hear. In her book " Was Weiße Menschen nicht über Rassismus hören wollen, aber wissen sollen" (What white people don't want to hear about racism, but should know), racism critic Alice Hasters explains it nevertheless. She patiently and forcefully describes how racism shapes her everyday life as a Black woman in Germany. And she states: It starts with self-reflection.

On November 20, Alice Hasters read from this book as part of the POST/ER CHILD Festival at Pong, Düsseldorf, and then spoke with Prasanna Oommen about her experiences as a prominent critic of racism. They talked about everyday racism, microaggressions, privilege and the difficulty of (one's own) confrontation. Alice Hasters also gave a little insight into her new book "Identitätskrise" ("Identity Crisis").

The POST/ER CHILD Festival is a series of events that explores stories of post-migrant experience in Germany.