Blackness as a Universal Claim (eBook)

Holocaust Heritage, Noncitizen Futures, and Black Power in Berlin

Damani J. Partridge (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
238 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-38222-0 (ISBN)

Infos

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.
 

Inhalt

Contents

Preface 
Acknowledgments 

Introduction 

PART I OCCUPYING BLACKNESS 

1. After Diaspora, Beyond Citizenship 
2. Exploding Hitler and Americanizing Germany: Occupying Black Bodies and Postwar Desire 
3. Occupying American Blackness and Reconfiguring European Spaces: Noncitizen 
    Articulations in Berlin and Beyond 

PART II HOLOCAUST MEMORY AND EXCLUSIONARY DEMOCRACY

4. Holocaust Mahnmal (Memorial): Monumental Memory amid Contemporary Race 
5. Democratization as Exclusion: Noncitizen Futures, Holocaust Heritage, and the 
    Defunding of Refugee Participation 

PART III NONCITIZEN FUTURES 

6. The Rehearsal Is the Revolution: “Insurrectionary Imagination”
7. Articulating a Noncitizen Politics: Nation-State Pity versus Black Possibility
Conclusion: From Claiming Blackness to Black Liberation 

Key Terms and Sites 
Notes 
Bibliography 
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.12.2022
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: American occupation • Asylum • Black Power • Citizenship • contemporary Berlin • Cultural Memory • dehumanization • Democratization • globalizing culture • Holocaust memorialization • People of Color in postwar Germany • Political movements • Racism • Refugees • Segregation
• ISBN-10: 0-520-38222-6 / 0520382226
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-38222-0 / 9780520382220