Blackness as a universal claim : holocaust heritage, noncitizen futures, and black power in Berlin / Damani J. Partridge.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Partridge, Damani J., 1973- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black people--Political activity--Germany--Berlin.

Black people.

Black power--Germany--Berlin.

Black power.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Influence.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Noncitizens--Political activity--Germany--Berlin.

Noncitizens.

Germany--Race relations--Political aspects.

Germany.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (238 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Blackness As a Universal Claim

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, 2023

Summary:

In this bold and provocative book, Damani J. Partridge examines the possibilities and limits of a universalized Black politics. Young people in Germany of Turkish, Arab, and African descent use claims of Blackness to hold states and other institutions accountable for their everyday struggle. Partridge tracks how these youth invoke the expressions of Black Power, acting out the medal-podium salute from the 1968 Olympics, proclaiming "I am Malcolm X," expressing mutual struggle with Muhammad Ali and Spike Lee, and standing with raised and clenched fists next to Angela Davis. Partridge also documents the demands by public-school teachers, federal-program leaders, and politicians that young immigrants account for the global persistence of anti-Semitism as part of the German state's commitment to antigenocidal education. He uses these stories to interrogate the relationships among European Enlightenment, Holocaust memory, and Black futures, showing how noncitizens work to reshape their everyday lives. In doing so, he demonstrates how the concept of Blackness energizes, inspires, and makes possible participation beyond national belonging for immigrants, refugees, Black people, and other People of Color.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I: Occuping Blackness

1. After Diaspora, Beyond Citizenship

2. Exploding Hitler and Americanizing Germany: Occupying Black Bodies and Postwar Desire

3. Occupying American Blackness and Reconfiguring European Spaces: Noncitizen Articulations in Berlin and Beyond

Part II: Holocaust Memory and Exclusionary Democracy

4. Holocaust Mahnmal (Memorial): Monumental Memory amid Contemporary Race

5. Democratization as Exclusion: Noncitizen Futures, Holocaust Heritage, and the Defunding of Refugee Participation

Part III: Noncitizen Futures

6. The Rehearsal Is the Revolution: "Insurrectionary Imagination

7. Articulating a Noncitizen Politics: Nation-State Pity versus Black Possibility

Conclusion: From Claiming Blackness to Black Liberation

Key Terms and Sites

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780520382220

0520382226

OCLC:

1346362869