The renaming of a Berlin boulevard to Anton-Wilhelm-Amo-Strasse, after Germany's first Africa-born scholar, has finally happened despite a last-ditch legal attempt to stop it.
Do you have the same reaction everytime a Spanish person uses the word for the color black?
You can argue “Mohrenkopf” is a racist term, but oftentimes Mohr was used as a sign of quality. Another example for using Mohr to signal quality are drug stores with names such as “Mohrenapotheke”. From Early Middleages probably up to and including the Industrialization Muslim scholars where at the forefront of medical progress. This influence often times reached Europe via the Iberian peninsula which was dominated by Muslims up to the 15th century. The term Mohr describes people of color from Iberia down to the Maghreb region and further. So if I was to buy medicine prepared according to a “Mohr” scholar, I was expecting great results.
Do you have the same reaction everytime a Spanish person uses the word for the color black?
You can argue “Mohrenkopf” is a racist term, but oftentimes Mohr was used as a sign of quality. Another example for using Mohr to signal quality are drug stores with names such as “Mohrenapotheke”. From Early Middleages probably up to and including the Industrialization Muslim scholars where at the forefront of medical progress. This influence often times reached Europe via the Iberian peninsula which was dominated by Muslims up to the 15th century. The term Mohr describes people of color from Iberia down to the Maghreb region and further. So if I was to buy medicine prepared according to a “Mohr” scholar, I was expecting great results.