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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463507803321

Autore

Partridge Damani J. <1973->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2012

ISBN

1-280-12429-6

9786613528155

0-253-00531-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (210 p.)

Collana

New anthropologies of Europe

Disciplina

305.800943

Soggetti

Citizenship - Germany

Foreign workers - Germany

Minorities - Germany

Political anthropology - Germany

Post-communism - Germany

Race discrimination - Germany

Sex discrimination - Germany

Electronic books.

Germany History Unification, 1990

Germany Politics and government 1990-

Germany Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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