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After the Nazi racial state : difference and democracy in Germany and Europe / Rita Chin ... [and others].
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Racism--Germany--History--20th century.
- Racism.
- Race relations.
- History.
- Foreign workers.
- Germany.
- Foreign workers--Germany--History--20th century.
- Germany--Race relations--History--20th century.
- Europe--Race relations--History--20th century.
- Europe.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vi, 263 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2009.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- What happened to "race," race thinking, and racial distinctions in Germany, and Europe more broadly, after the demise of the Nazi racial state? This book investigates the afterlife of "race" since 1945 and challenges the long-dominant assumption among historians that it disappeared from public discourse and policy-making with the defeat of the Third Reich and its genocidal European empire. Drawing on case studies of Afro-Germans, Jews, and Turks-arguably the three most important minority communities in postwar Germany-the authors detail continuities and change across the 1945 divide and offer the beginnings of a history of race and racialization after Hitler. A final chapter moves beyond the German context to consider the postwar engagement with "race" in France, Britain, Sweden, and the Netherlands, where waves of postwar, postcolonial, and labor migration troubled nativist notions of national and European identity.
- After the Nazi Racial State poses interpretative questions for the historical understanding of postwar societies and democratic transformation, both in Germany and throughout Europe. It elucidates key analytical categories, historicizes current discourse, and demonstrates how contemporary debates about immigration and integration-and about just how much "difference" a democracy can accommodate-are implicated in a longer history of "race." This book explores why the concept of "race" became taboo as a tool for understanding German society after 1945. Most crucially, it suggests the social and epistemic consequences of this determined retreat from "race" for Germany and Europe as a whole.
- Contents:
- What's race got to do with it? Postwar German history in context / Rita Chin and Heide Fehrenbach
- Black occupation children and the devolution of the Nazi racial state / Heide Fehrenbach
- From victims to "homeless foreigners" : Jewish survivors in postwar Germany / Atina Grossmann
- Guest worker migration and the unexpected return of race / Rita Chin
- German democracy and the question of difference, 1945-1995 / Rita Chin and Heide Fehrenbach
- The trouble with "race" : migrancy, cultural difference, and the remaking of Europe / Geoff Eley.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9780472116867
- 9780472033447
- 047211686X
- 0472033441
- Publisher Number:
- 10.3998/mpub.354212
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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