ISBN:
9780520382220
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (238 p.)
Year of publication:
2022
Keywords:
Black people Political activity
;
Black power
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
;
Noncitizens Political activity
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Abstract:
In this bold and provocative new book, Damani Partridge examines the possibilities and limits for a universalized Black politics. German youth of Turkish, Arab, and African descent use claims of Blackness to hold states and other institutions accountable for racism today. Partridge tracks how these young people take on the expressions of Black Power, acting out the scene 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 public school teachers, federal program leaders, and politicians demanding that young immigrants account for the global persistence of anti-Semitism as part of the German state's commitment to anti-genocidal education. He uses these stories to interrogate the relationships between European Enlightenment, Holocaust memory, and Black futures, showing how noncitizens work to reshape their everyday lives. In doing so, he demonstrates how Blackness is a concept that energizes, inspires, and makes possible participation beyond national belonging for immigrants, refugees, Black people, and other People of Color
Note:
Frontmatter
,
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
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3. Occupying American Blackness and Reconfiguring European Spaces: Noncitizen Articulations in Berlin and Beyond
,
Part II. Holocaust Memory and Exclusionary Democracy
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4. Holocaust Mahnmal (Memorial): Monumental Memory amid Contemporary Race
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5. Democratization as Exclusion: Noncitizen Futures, Holocaust Heritage, and the Defunding of Refugee Participation
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Part III. Noncitizen Futures
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6. The Rehearsal Is the Revolution: “Insurrectionary Imagination”
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7. Articulating a Noncitizen Politics: Nation-State Pity versus Black Possibility
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Conclusion: From Claiming Blackness to Black Liberation
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Key Terms and Sites
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Notes
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Bibliography
,
Index
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In English
DOI:
10.1525/9780520382220
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