European University Institute Library

Blackness as a universal claim, Holocaust heritage, noncitizen futures, and Black power in Berlin, Damani J. Partridge

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-208) and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

Blackness as a universal claim

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Damani J. Partridge

Holocaust heritage, noncitizen futures, and Black power in Berlin

"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"--, Provided by publisher

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