Description
Book SynopsisDiscusses the politics of multiculturalism, citizenship and exclusion
Trade Review[T]his book is an important addition to scholarship on citizenship and minority inclusion/exclusion in Europe, adding a much-needed perspective on Germany to a field dominated by work on Britain and France. It is highly readable: Partridge has an easy, engaging style that makes the book eminently suitable for undergraduates, in addition to graduate students and specialists.
* German Studies Review *
Hypersexuality and Headscarves is a critical analysis of the dynamics of race and citizenship in Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall. With this highly original investigation, Partridge offers an important contribution to the study of race in Germany.
* Reviews & Critical Commentary *
[This] book's impressive ethnographic breadth thus serves to convey just how varied, pervasive, and entrenched the mechanisms of exclusion are in Germany. . . Taken as a whole, Partridge's portrait of exclusion in Germany is an illuminating and damning one. August 2013
* AMERICAN ETHNOLOGIST *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
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
