Full Description
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.
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 Production
Epilogue: Triangulated (Non)Citizenship: Memories and Futures of Racialized Production
Notes
References
Index
