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Description

1. xxi, 214 pages : illustrations (black and white); 24 cm

Summary

1. "In this bold and provocative new book, Damani J. Partridge examines the possibilities and limits for a universalized Black politics. German youth of Turkish, Arab, and African descent use claims of Blackness to hold states and other institutions accountable for racism today. Partridge tracks how these young people take on the expressions of Black Power, acting out the scene 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 public school teachers, federal program leaders, and politicians demanding 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 Blackness is a concept that energizes, inspires, and makes possible participation beyond national belonging for immigrants, refugees, Black people, and other People of Color"--

Subject

1. Black power -- Germany -- Berlin. - [Browse in index]
2. Black people -- Political activity -- Germany -- Berlin. - [Browse in index]
3. Noncitizens -- Political activity -- Germany -- Berlin. - [Browse in index]
4. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Influence. - [Browse in index]
5. Germany -- Race relations -- Political aspects. - [Browse in index]

Contents

1. After diaspora, beyond citizenship -- Exploding Hitler and Americanizing Germany : occupying black bodies and postwar desire -- Occupying American blackness and reconfiguring European spaces : noncitizen articulations in Berlin and beyond -- Holocaust Mahnmal (memorial) : monumental memory amid contemporary race -- Democratization as exclusion? : noncitizen futures, Holocaust heritage, and the defunding of refugee participation -- The rehearsal is the revolution : "insurrectionary imagination -- Articulating a noncitizen politics : nation-state pity versus black possibility -- Conclusion : from claiming blackness to black liberation.

Call number

1. Sc E 23-874

Language

1. English

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-208) and index.

Author

1. Partridge, Damani J., 1973- author.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Chronological term

1. 1939-1945

Local subject

1. Black author.

LCCN

1. 2022006818

ISBN

1. 9780520382190 hardcover
2. 0520382196 hardcover
3. 9780520382213 paperback
4. 0520382218 paperback
5. 9780520382220 electronic book