Blackness as a Universal Claim: Holocaust Heritage, Noncitizen Futures, and Black Power in Berlin

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Damani J. Partridge

Blackness as a Universal Claim

Holocaust Heritage, Noncitizen Futures, and Black Power in Berlin

Damani J. Partridge

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University of California Press
28 January 2023

Ethnic studies; Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies; Black & Asian studies; Anthropology; Social & cultural anthropology

"In this bold and provocative new book, Damani 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 anti-genocidal education. He uses these stories to interrogate the relationships between 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.

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By: Damani J. Partridge
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 363g
ISBN: 9780520382213
ISBN 10: 0520382218
Pages: 238
Publication Date: 28 January 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Damani J. Partridge is Professor of Anthropology and Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan.

Reviews for Blackness as a Universal Claim: Holocaust Heritage, Noncitizen Futures, and Black Power in Berlin

"""[The book] succeeds in demonstrating the need for Blackness as a mode of seeing across the totality of human existence."" * Ethnic and Racial Studies * ""By focusing on how the rhetoric about Blackness shifted and was impacted by external events like the Civil Rights Movement within the context of the occupation and democratization period in Germany, this discussion sets the stage for linking the emerging historical contradictions with Holocaust memory and processes of democratization."" * CHOICE *"