European others [electronic resource] : queering ethnicity in postnational Europe / Fatima El-Tayeb.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

El-Tayeb, Fatima.

Series:

Difference incorporated.

Difference incorporated

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Group identity--Europe.

Group identity.

National characteristics, European.

Ethnicity--Europe.

Ethnicity.

Race discrimination--Europe.

Race discrimination.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (302 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, Minn. : University of Minnesota Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

""European Others"" offers an interrogation into the position of racialized communities in the European Union, arguing that the tension between a growing nonwhite, non-Christian population and insistent essentialist definitions of Europeanness produces new forms of identity and activism. Moving beyond disciplinary and national limits, Fatima El-Tayeb explores structures of resistance, tracing a Europeanization from below in which migrant and minority communities challenge the ideology of racelessness that places them firmly outside the community of citizens. Using a notable variety of sources,

Contents:

Introduction: theorizing urban minority communities in postnational Europe

"Stranger in my own country" : European identities, migration, and diasporic soundscapes

Dimensions of diaspora : women of color feminism, black Europe, and queer memory discourses

Secular submissions : Muslim Europeans, female bodies, and performative politics

"Because it is our stepfatherland" : queering European public spaces

Conclusion: "an infinite and undefinable movement".

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4529-4724-4

0-8166-7855-3

OCLC:

748242156