“Die Arbeit in weißer Haut kann sich nicht dort emanzipieren, wo sie in schwarzer Haut gebrandmarkt wird.” – Karl Marx, Das Kapital

The Harvard Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures joins millions of Americans and people across the world in condemning the recent murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery, as well as the countless murders of Black men and women that preceded them. We support the protests that were catalyzed by Floyd’s murder. We remember that Floyd was only the most recent in a long list of Black lives lost to police...