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1 online resource (349 pages) |
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Culture and Social Practice |
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Kultur und soziale Praxis.
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Who can speak and who is heard/hurt? Facing problems of race, racism, and ethnic diversity in the humanities in Germany: a survey of the issues at stake / Mahmoud Arghavan, Nicole Hirschfelder, and Katharina Motyl -- 'Ausländer': a racialized concept? 'Race' as an analytical concept in contemporary German immigration history / Maria Alexopoulou -- Perspective matters: racism and resistance in the everyday lives of youths of color in Germany / Lili Rebstock -- Beyond a trifling presence: Afro-Germans and identity boundaries in Germany / Anthony Obute -- Race and racism in translation: "who can speak?" in German renderings of literary African American English / Annika Rosbach -- Post-racism, colorblind individualism & political correctness: contemporary modes of materialization in American studies and German academia / Courtney Moffett-Bateau and Sebastian Weier -- Kanak academic: teaching in enemy territory / Ismahan Wayah -- The migrant scholar of color as refugee in the Western academy / Mahmoud Arghavan -- Keeping academia white: a case study / Kai Linke -- On racism without race: the need to diversify Germanistik and the German academy / Priscilla Layne -- "So you want to write about American Indians?" Ethical reflections on Euro-Academia's research on indigenous cultural narratives / Amina Grunewald -- "The danger of a single story": addressing contemporary public discourse and protest movements in American studies classrooms in Germany / Saskia Hertlein -- Goethe meets Baldwin: notes towards a comparative perspective beyond misappropriation / Derek C. Maus -- Notes from the margin: academic white spaces and the silencing of scholars of color / Kimberly Alecia Singletary -- Transatlantic postcolonial (t)races in the classroom: from Defoe's Desert Island to Larsen's Quicksand and Black-ish suburbia / Elahe Haschemi Yekani -- Passing tone/note / Marius Henderson |
| Summary |
Ethnic diversity, 'race', and racism have been subject to discussion in American studies departments at German universities for many years. It appears that especially in the past few decades, ethnic minorities and 'new immigrants' have increasingly become objects of scholarly inquiry. Such research questions focus on the U.S. and other traditionally multicultural societies that have emerged out of historical situations shaped by (settler) colonialism, slavery and/or large-scale immigration. Paradoxically, these studies have overwhelmingly been conducted by white scholars born in Germany and holding German citizenship. Scholars with actual experience of racial discrimination have remained largely unheard. Departing from a critique of practices employed by the German branch of the American studies, the volume offers (self- )reflective approaches by scholars from different fields in the German humanities. It thereby seeks to provide a solid basis for thorough and candid discussions of the mechanisms behind and the implications of racialized power relations in the German humanities and German society at large |
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"This project resulted from a workshop in Tübingen in 2016"--Acknowledgments |
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Includes bibliographic refereneces |
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In English |
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Print version record |
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Discrimination in education -- Germany -- Congresses
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Racism -- Germany -- Congresses
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Cultural pluralism -- Germany -- Congresses
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations
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Cultural pluralism
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Discrimination in education
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Ethnic relations
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Racism
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Germany -- Ethnic relations -- Congresses
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Germany
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proceedings (reports)
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Actes de congrès.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Arghavan, Mahmoud, editor.
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Hirschfelder, Nicole, editor.
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Kopp, Luvena, editor.
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Motyl, Katharina, editor.
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| ISBN |
9783839441039 |
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383944103X |
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