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

This is a book talk by Damani J. Partridge (Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 2003), Professor of Anthropology and Afroamerican and African Studies and a German Department affiliate at the University of Michigan. His writing examines noncitizenship, sexuality, post-Cold War ‘freedom’, Holocaust memorialization, African-American military occupation, ‘Blackness’ and embodiment, and the Obama moment in Berlin. He directs the Filming Future Cities Project inBerlin and Detroit. In 2012, he published Hypersexuality and Headscarves: Race, Sex, and Citizenship in the New Germany. UC Press published Blackness as a Universal Claim: Holocaust Heritage, Noncitizen Futures, and Black Power in Berlin in December 2022.