European Others: Queering Ethnicity in Postnational Europe
Fatima El-Tayeb
Abstract
This book offers an interrogation into the position of racialized communities in the European Union, arguing that the tension between a growing nonwhite, non-Christian population and insistent essentialist definitions of Europeanness produces new forms of identity and activism. Moving beyond disciplinary and national limits, the text explores structures of resistance, tracing a Europeanization from below in which migrant and minority communities challenge the ideology of racelessness that places them firmly outside the community of citizens. Using a notable variety of sources, from drag perfor ... More
This book offers an interrogation into the position of racialized communities in the European Union, arguing that the tension between a growing nonwhite, non-Christian population and insistent essentialist definitions of Europeanness produces new forms of identity and activism. Moving beyond disciplinary and national limits, the text explores structures of resistance, tracing a Europeanization from below in which migrant and minority communities challenge the ideology of racelessness that places them firmly outside the community of citizens. Using a notable variety of sources, from drag performances to feminist Muslim activism and Euro hip-hop, the book draws on the largely ignored archive of vernacular culture central to resistance by minority youths to the exclusionary nationalism that casts them as threatening outcasts. At the same time, it reveals the continued effect of Europe’s suppressed colonial history on the representation of Muslim minorities as the illiberal Other of progressive Europe.
Keywords:
racialized communities,
European Union,
non-white,
non-Christian,
Europeanness,
identity,
activism,
migrant communities,
minority communities,
Muslim activism
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2011 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780816670154 |
| Published to Minnesota Scholarship Online: August 2015 |
DOI:10.5749/minnesota/9780816670154.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Fatima El-Tayeb, author
Associate Professor, Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego
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