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Marylin, a novel by the Austrian writer Arthur Rundt about a mixed-race woman passing as white, moves from Chicago to New York City and concludes tragically on a Caribbean island. First published in 1928 and now translated into English, it offers a European view of racial attitudes in the US during the era of the Harlem Renaissance and Jim Crow. Rundt's short but powerful novel touches several vital issues in society today, engaging each in a way that prompts further examination and cross-fertilization. First, it sheds historical light on what has become painfully obvious in the Black Lives Matter era (if it wasn't before): the continued injustice experienced by Blacks in America as an effect of structural racism. Second, it confronts issues of migration and hybrid identities. Third, it has relevance for Women's Studies through the title character's interaction with the patriarchy. Through these connections, it responds to a growing current in German Studies concerned with diversity and inclusion and integrating the discipline into the broader humanities. An introduction and an afterword, both of them extensive and scholarly, contextualize the novel in its time and as it relates to ours.

African American women. --- #MeToo. --- Black Lives Matter. --- Caribbean island. --- Chicago. --- German Studies. --- Harlem Renaissance. --- Jim Crow. --- New York City. --- Women's Studies. --- diversity and inclusion. --- hybrid identities. --- migration. --- mixed-race woman. --- passing as white. --- patriarchy. --- racial attitudes. --- structural racism.

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In this brilliantly evocative ethnography, Francio Guadeloupe probes the ethos and attitude created by radio disc jockeys on the binational Caribbean island of Saint Martin/Sint Maarten. Examining the intersection of Christianity, calypso, and capitalism, Guadeloupe shows how a multiethnic and multireligious island nation, where livelihoods depend on tourism, has managed to encourage all social classes to transcend their ethnic and religious differences. In his pathbreaking analysis, Guadeloupe credits the island DJs, whose formulations of Christian faith, musical creativity, and capitalist survival express ordinary people's hopes and fears and promote tolerance.

Ethnology --- Ethnicity --- Anthropology of religion --- Religion and culture --- Disc jockeys --- Music --- Social aspects --- Saint Martin (West Indies) --- Ethnic relations. --- Race relations. --- Social conditions. --- anthropology. --- attitude. --- binational caribbean island. --- calypso. --- capitalism. --- capitalist survival. --- caribbean sea. --- caribbean. --- christian faith. --- christianity. --- cultural studies. --- dj cimarron. --- dj shadow. --- ethnography. --- ethos. --- hip hop music. --- multiethnic island nation. --- multireligious island nation. --- music. --- musical creativity. --- politics. --- radio disc jockey. --- rastafari individuality. --- rastafarian. --- religious anthropology. --- saint martin. --- sint maarten. --- social classes. --- spiritual. --- tolerance. --- tourism.