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Hypersexuality and headscarves : race, sex, and citizenship in the new Germany /

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"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" Germa...

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Main Author: Partridge, Damani J., 1973-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, 2012.
Series:New anthropologies of Europe.
Subjects:
Political anthropology > Germany.
Race discrimination > Germany.
Sex discrimination > Germany.
Citizenship > Germany.
Minorities > Germany.
Foreign workers > Germany.
Post-communism > Germany.
Germany > History > Unification, 1990.
Germany > Politics and government > 1990-
Germany > Race relations.
Citizenship > Germany.
Foreign workers > Germany.
Minorities > Germany.
Political anthropology > Germany.
Political anthropology.
Post-communism > Germany.
Race discrimination > Germany.
Race discrimination.
Sex discrimination > Germany.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Ethno-patriarchal returns: the fall of the wall, closed factories, and leftover bodies
  • Travel as an analytic of exclusion: the politics of mobility after the wall
  • We were dancing in the club, not on the Berlin Wall: black bodies, street bureaucrats, and hypersexual returns
  • The progeny of guest workers as leftover bodies: post-wall West German school and the administration of failure
  • Why can't you just remove your headscarf so we can see you? Reappropriating "foreign' bodies in the new Germany.