Hypersexuality and headscarves : race, sex, and citizenship in the new Germany / Damani J. Partridge.

Author
Partridge, Damani J., 1973- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
1st ed.
Published/​Created
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2012.
Description
1 online resource (210 p.)

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Series
New anthropologies of Europe. [More in this series]
Summary note
In this compelling study, Damani J. Partridge explores citizenship and exclusion in Germany since the fall of the Berlin Wall. That event seemed to usher in a new era of universal freedom, but post-reunification transformations of German society have in fact produced noncitizens: non-white and ""foreign"" Germans who are simultaneously portrayed as part of the nation and excluded from full citizenship. Partridge considers the situation of Vietnamese guest workers ""left behind"" in the former East Germany; images of hypersexualized black bodies reproduced in popular culture and intimate rel
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Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p.167-179) and index.
Language note
English
Contents
  • Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue; Introduction: Becoming Noncitizens; 1. Ethno-patriarchal Returns: The Fall of the Wall, Closed Factories, and Leftover Bodies; 2. Travel as an Analytic of Exclusion: The Politics of Mobility after the Wall; 3. We Were Dancing in the Club, Not on the Berlin Wall: Black Bodies, Street Bureaucrats, and Hypersexual Returns; 4. The Progeny of Guest Workers as Leftover Bodies: Post-Wall West German Schools and the Administration of Failure; 5. Why Can't You Just Remove Your Headscarf So We Can See You? Reappropriating "Foreign" Bodies in the New Germany
  • Conclusion: Intervening at the Sites of Exclusionary ProductionEpilogue: Triangulated (Non)Citizenship: Memories and Futures of Racialized Production; Notes; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z
ISBN
  • 9786613528155
  • 9781280124297
  • 1280124296
  • 9780253005311
  • 0253005310
OCLC
775866770
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