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Hypersexuality and Headscarves: Race, Sex, and Citizenship in the New Germany

Hypersexuality and Headscarves: Race, Sex, and Citizenship in the New Germany

Partridge, Damani J.

Paperback

Series: New Anthropologies of Europe

AnthropologyBlack American StudiesGerman History

ISBN10: 0253223695
ISBN13: 9780253223692
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: Feb 17 2012
Pages: 210
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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 relationships; and debates about the use of the headscarf by Muslim students and teachers. In these and other cases, which regularly provoke violence against those perceived to be different, he shows that German national and European projects are complicit in the production of distinctly European noncitizens.

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