Blackness as a Universal Claim: Holocaust Heritage, Noncitizen Futures, and Black Power in Berlin

Damani J. Partridge

Published by University of California Press 2022

Blackness as a Universal Claim

Holocaust Heritage, Noncitizen Futures, and Black Power in Berlin

Damani J. Partridge

https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520382220

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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.

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Partridge Damani J. :

Damani J. Partridge is Professor of Anthropology and Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I. Occuping Blackness
1. After Diaspora, Beyond Citizenship Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
2. Exploding Hitler and Americanizing Germany: Occupying Black Bodies and Postwar Desire Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	26
3. Occupying American Blackness and Reconfiguring European Spaces: Noncitizen Articulations in Berlin and Beyond Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
Part II. Holocaust Memory and Exclusionary Democracy
4. Holocaust Mahnmal (Memorial): Monumental Memory amid Contemporary Race Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
5. Democratization as Exclusion: Noncitizen Futures, Holocaust Heritage, and the Defunding of Refugee Participation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	96
Part III. Noncitizen Futures
6. The Rehearsal Is the Revolution: “Insurrectionary Imagination” Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
7. Articulating a Noncitizen Politics: Nation-State Pity versus Black Possibility Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
Conclusion: From Claiming Blackness to Black Liberation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
Key Terms and Sites Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209

Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
Pages
- Main content: 238

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Published: December 6, 2022
ISBN: 9780520382220