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

• Autore: Partridge Damani J. <1973->
• Pubblicazione: Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (210 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.800943
• Soggetto topico: Citizenship - Germany; Foreign workers - Germany; Minorities - Germany; Political anthropology - Germany; Post-communism - Germany; Race discrimination - Germany; Sex discrimination - Germany
• Soggetto geografico: Germany History Unification, 1990; Germany Politics and government 1990-; Germany Race relations
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Hypersexuality and headscarves
• ISBN: 1-280-12429-6; 9786613528155; 0-253-00531-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910812157403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: New anthropologies of Europe.