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Race, Islamophobia and the politics of citizenship in post-unification Germany

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posted on 2023-06-06, 08:23 authored by Aleksandra LewickiAleksandra Lewicki
In the immediate aftermath of German reunification, as in the wake of the recent humanitarian crisis, Germany experienced notable ‘peaks’ of racist agitation and violence. In the 1990s, as today, the post-Communist eastern regions of Germany tend to be perceived as the hub of such racism. In this article, Lewicki revisits both ‘peaks’ via an examination of numerical evidence for verbal and physical racist violence in the former East and West of Germany. Rather than conceiving of racism as ‘cyclical’ or a specific legacy of the Communist dictatorship, her analysis suggests that political projects in Germany’s past and present have retained distinct structural incarnations of race. Far-right activists could thus successfully channel animosities resulting from the terms of unification into nationalist and racist resentment: momentarily more so in the East, but increasingly also in the West. The politics of citizenship, Lewicki argues, has provided a key means of perpetuating, reaffirming and cementing racialized hierarchies in the two post-war German states, but also in reunified Germany.

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  • Published

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Journal

Patterns of Prejudice

ISSN

0031-322X

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Issue

5

Volume

52

Page range

496-512

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  • Sociology and Criminology Publications

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Legacy Posted Date

2018-10-25

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2018-12-10

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2018-10-24

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