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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Partridge, Damani J., 1973-

Series:

New anthropologies of Europe.

New anthropologies of Europe

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Citizenship--Germany.

Citizenship.

Foreign workers--Germany.

Foreign workers.

Minorities--Germany.

Minorities.

Political anthropology--Germany.

Political anthropology.

Post-communism--Germany.

Post-communism.

Race discrimination--Germany.

Race discrimination.

Sex discrimination--Germany.

Sex discrimination.

Germany--History--Unification, 1990.

Germany.

Germany--Politics and government--1990-.

Germany--Race relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (210 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p.167-179) and index.

ISBN:

9786613528155

9781280124297

1280124296

9780253005311

0253005310

OCLC:

775866770