European others [[electronic resource] ] : queering ethnicity in postnational Europe / / Fatima El-Tayeb

• Autore: El-Tayeb Fatima
• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, Minn., : University of Minnesota Press, 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (302 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.3089/0094
• Soggetto topico: Group identity - Europe; National characteristics, European; Ethnicity - Europe; Race discrimination - Europe
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: theorizing urban minority communities in postnational Europe -- "Stranger in my own country" : European identities, migration, and diasporic soundscapes -- Dimensions of diaspora : women of color feminism, black Europe, and queer memory discourses -- Secular submissions : Muslim Europeans, female bodies, and performative politics -- "Because it is our stepfatherland" : queering European public spaces -- Conclusion: "an infinite and undefinable movement".
• Sommario/riassunto: ""European Others"" offers an interrogation into the position of racialized communities in the European Union, arguing that the tension between a growing nonwhite, non-Christian population and insistent essentialist definitions of Europeanness produces new forms of identity and activism. Moving beyond disciplinary and national limits, Fatima El-Tayeb explores structures of resistance, tracing a Europeanization from below in which migrant and minority communities challenge the ideology of racelessness that places them firmly outside the community of citizens. Using a notable variety of sources,
• Titolo autorizzato: European others
• ISBN: 1-4529-4724-4; 0-8166-7855-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910789646503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Difference incorporated.