Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack has become a foundational text within educational work critical of racism. In her list, which Peggy McIntosh compiled as part of her essay ” White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences through Work in Women’s Studies.” published, she lists 50 items that name her personal white privilege. In doing so, she aims to illustrate the extent to which a position of whiteness involves structural advantages that racialized people fundamentally do not hold, in order to highlight and oppose racist relations of oppression. Peggy McIntosh 1988: White Privilege and Male Privilege:…
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In “Western Culture and Its Other,” Iman Attia illuminates the political, cultural, and everyday discourses of ‘Western culture’ as sites of origin for anti-Muslim racism. “In contrast to interreligious dialogues that strive to understand “the foreign” and thus want to counter “Islamophobia,” this book reverses the perspective. The view of “the others” serves as the starting point for consideration – not in order to understand “the foreign,” but in order to be able to reflect on “one’s own. With reference to postcolonial and poststructuralist theories, the presentation of “Islam” as a hegemonic discourse is analyzed. Accordingly, the dichotomy between “Islam”…
In this book, young people in a unique project introduce Black European personalities who have had a decisive influence on the history and present of Europe. “The book is a tribute to extraordinary people who helped shape the destinies of their time, but who, due to the existing Eurocentric historiography, have been deprived of their historical significance and forgotten to this day.” (From the publisher’s description). Pädagogisches Zentrum Aachen e.V. (PÄZ) (ed.) 2016: Schwarzes Europa: Legenden die uns verborgen blieben – Schwarze Jugendliche auf den Spuren ihrer Geschichte. A book for young people. Münster: Edition Assemblage. If you don’t have…
Behind the book’s casual title lies a profound critique of “Western society” as the imagined highest level of cultural development. Easily understandable and in sensitive language, Friederike Habermann explains origins of competition and racism as integral parts of “Western society”. It illuminates the violent effects of colonial thinking as it continues to this day, and thereby simultaneously offers a perspective for overcoming current conditions. (See also: publisher’s book description). Friederike Habermann 2013: The Invisible Pith Helmet. How colonial thinking still dominates our minds. Klein Jasedow: thinkOya. If you don’t have a bookstore worth supporting near you, you can also buy…
In this book, Fatima El-Tayeb focuses on an archive of everyday culture that has received little attention to date and is of particular importance as a central site of resistance among migrant youth. “Anders Europäisch’ focuses on European racialization and identities, art and resistance, theorizes and intervenes, historicizes, analyzes and documents. In doing so, El-Tayeb places young Europeans of Color, their translocal structures and strategies for dealing with their exclusion from nation and Europe at the center of her study.” Publisher’s book description. Fatima El-Tayeb 2015: Different European: Racism, Identity and Resistance in a United Europe. Münster: Unrast. If you…
The website Break The Binary – Black Trans* Perspectives serves to make Black Trans* Perspectives visible in Germany and beyond. Among other things, the site features art, information about events and a blog. “Break The Binary” is run exclusively by Black trans* people and is part of a project of the “Initiative Black People in Germany”.
Those who wish to examine social inequalities multidimensionally will find in this volume both a comprehensible methodological practical guide and a theoretical presentation of the concept of intersectionality. As interacting categories that create, perpetuate, and reinforce difference and discrimination, race, class, gender, and body are the focus of the book’s analysis of inequality. Gabriele Winker, Nina Degele 2009: Intersectionality. On the analysis of social inequalities. Bielefeld: transcript. If you don’t have a bookstore worth supporting near you, you can also buy the book from the alternative non-profit online bookstore links-lesen.de, which supports political projects with the profits. The link to…
The book brings together studies that address how the racialized normal produces bodies of knowledge. “The contributions to this volume examine institutional and interactive practices of foreign and self-positioning in formal and informal educational contexts that are taken for granted as customary-and thus culturally self-evident.” (Publisher’s book description) Anne Broden, Paul Mecheril (eds.) 2010: Racism Educates. Educational contributions to normalization and subjectification in the migration society. Bielefeld: transcript. If you don’t have a bookstore worth supporting near you, you can also buy the book from the alternative non-profit online bookstore links-lesen.de, which supports political projects with the profits. The link…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSp4v294xog Danez Smith richtet einen eindringlichen Weckruf an ein ‘weißes Amerika’ und erhebt Anklage gegen die von Rassismus geprägten Zustände, unter denen Schwarze Menschen Leben. Dear White America | Danez Smith | USA | 2014 | Englisch | Performance | 3,18 min.
The anthology explores the question of the extent to which postcolonial theorizing and criticism are applicable in the context of the Federal Republic. The focus is on the significance and impact that postcolonial concepts have for understanding the realities of life of migrants and minorities in Germany. Hito Steyerl, Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez (eds.) 2012: Spricht die Subalterne deutsch? Migration and Postcolonial Critique. Münster: Unrast. If you don’t have a bookstore worth supporting near you, you can also buy the book from the alternative non-profit online bookstore links-lesen.de, which supports political projects with the profits. The link to the book is:…
The anthology brings together exclusively critical voices and perspectives of people of color on racism and cultural politics. It thus offers an in-depth examination of dominant discourses of racism, migration, and integration from a perspective of resistance. “Self-determined spaces and visions of solidarity become visible that challenge the racist logic of divide and rule and aim for transnational identities and alliances.” (from publisher’s description) Kien Nghi Ha, Nicola Lauré al-Samarai, Sheila Mysorekar (eds.) 2007: re/visionen. Postcolonial Perspectives of People of Color on Racism, Cultural Politics, and Resistance in Germany. Münster: Unrast. If you don’t have a bookstore worth supporting near…
[youtube id=”lpPASWlnZIA&list=PLSfmMVczsBAieaBClLuYj6nnmmX3pGSyw”] The poetry performance “Lost Voices” addresses experiences of sexism and racism as well as (political) solidarity in the existing relationship of overlapping social inequalities: In the video, Darius Simpson, a Black man, and Scout Bostley, a white woman, tell each other’s stories. Lost Voices | Darius Simpson/Scout Bostley | USA | 2015 | English | Performance | 2,59 min.