Abstract: The presence of Black people in Europe can be traced back centuries, yet they are too often treated as strangers and are erased from history. The discrepancy between the self-perception and representation of Switzerland as homogeneous and white despite various diverse lived realities remains. Black activists, artists, and researchers are making their diverse Black experiences visible. While tourists admire the picturesque landscape of Switzerland, Black Swiss women Rachel M'Bon, filmmaker and journalist, and Pamela Ohene-Nyako, researcher and activist, give a glimpse of the subliminal but omnipresent racism in Switzerland and the resistance against it. In this interview, conducted via Zoom and e-mail in conjunction with a discussion we organized and hosted for the 2024 Coalition of Women in German conference, M'Bon and Ohene-Nyako talk about the documentary Je suis Noires/Becoming a Black Woman (2022), national mythmaking in Switzerland, antiracist activism and the arts, and transnational networks.
Oholi et al. (Wed,) studied this question.