Rita Chin
Biographic Data
| ID | 225223 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rita Chin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rita |
| FAMILY NAME | Chin |
| SIGNATURE | CHIN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Case for Thinking Comparatively about Reparative Justice
Recent calls in the United States for reparations for slavery have often referenced Germany as a useful model because of its payments to Israel and efforts to atone for the Holocaust. This article traces how Germans have grappled with the Nazi legacy since 1945, focusing on developments and debates in the Federal Republic. It brings more specificity to the lexicon of reparative justice as it considers the lessons that emerge from the German case.…
The Case for Bringing Experiential Learning into the Humanities
Drawing on innovative programs at the University of Michigan and Duke University, this essay explores an important trend in humanistic education: the provision of opportunities for experiential learning, whether for undergraduates or graduate students. Avenues for applied humanistic research, such as research-based internships and courses structured around collaborative, client-inflected research projects, provide numerous benefits. In addition t…
Thinking Difference in Postwar Germany
Turkish Women, West German Feminists, and the Gendered Discourse on Muslim Cultural Difference
A striking aspect of contemporary European debates about immigrants is the focus on the Muslim woman as the key figure through which objections to Islamic cultural difference have been articulated. This article traces how sexual politics became central to German public debates about guest worker migrants. It shows how Turkish women became a central trope for representing the fundamental cultural differences between Turks and Germans and explores …
After the Nazi Racial State
"After the Nazi Racial State offers a comprehensive, persuasive, and ambitious argument in favor of making 'race' a more central analytical category for the writing of post-1945 history. This is an extremely important project, and the volume indeed has the potential to reshape the field of post-1945 German history." ---Frank Biess, University of California, San Diego What happened to "race," race thinking, and racial distinctions in Germany, and …
Toward a “Minor Literature”? The Case of Ausländerliteratur in Postwar Germany
In recent years, scholars of German literature have increasingly pointed to Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's theory of “minor literature” as a crucial framework for understanding the development of minority cultural production in a variety of twentieth-century contexts (Teraoka, 1987; Suhr, 1989; Spector, 2000). Deleuze and Guattari propose that any minority group writing in a major language produces what they term minor literature, which has …
The Case for Bringing Experiential Learning into the Humanities
Drawing on innovative programs at the University of Michigan and Duke University, this essay explores an important trend in humanistic education: the provision of opportunities for experiential learning, whether for undergraduates or graduate students. Avenues for applied humanistic research, such as research-based internships and courses structured around collaborative, client-inflected research projects, provide numerous benefits. In addition t…
Turkish Women, West German Feminists, and the Gendered Discourse on Muslim Cultural Difference
A striking aspect of contemporary European debates about immigrants is the focus on the Muslim woman as the key figure through which objections to Islamic cultural difference have been articulated. This article traces how sexual politics became central to German public debates about guest worker migrants. It shows how Turkish women became a central trope for representing the fundamental cultural differences between Turks and Germans and explores …
Toward a “Minor Literature”? The Case of Ausländerliteratur in Postwar Germany
In recent years, scholars of German literature have increasingly pointed to Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's theory of “minor literature” as a crucial framework for understanding the development of minority cultural production in a variety of twentieth-century contexts (Teraoka, 1987; Suhr, 1989; Spector, 2000). Deleuze and Guattari propose that any minority group writing in a major language produces what they term minor literature, which has …
After the Nazi Racial State
"After the Nazi Racial State offers a comprehensive, persuasive, and ambitious argument in favor of making 'race' a more central analytical category for the writing of post-1945 history. This is an extremely important project, and the volume indeed has the potential to reshape the field of post-1945 German history." ---Frank Biess, University of California, San Diego What happened to "race," race thinking, and racial distinctions in Germany, and …
Turkish Women, West German Feminists, and the Gendered Discourse on Muslim Cultural Difference
A striking aspect of contemporary European debates about immigrants is the focus on the Muslim woman as the key figure through which objections to Islamic cultural difference have been articulated. This article traces how sexual politics became central to German public debates about guest worker migrants. It shows how Turkish women became a central trope for representing the fundamental cultural differences between Turks and Germans and explores …
Thinking Difference in Postwar Germany
The Case for Bringing Experiential Learning into the Humanities
Drawing on innovative programs at the University of Michigan and Duke University, this essay explores an important trend in humanistic education: the provision of opportunities for experiential learning, whether for undergraduates or graduate students. Avenues for applied humanistic research, such as research-based internships and courses structured around collaborative, client-inflected research projects, provide numerous benefits. In addition t…
The Case for Thinking Comparatively about Reparative Justice
Recent calls in the United States for reparations for slavery have often referenced Germany as a useful model because of its payments to Israel and efforts to atone for the Holocaust. This article traces how Germans have grappled with the Nazi legacy since 1945, focusing on developments and debates in the Federal Republic. It brings more specificity to the lexicon of reparative justice as it considers the lessons that emerge from the German case.…
Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · European history and politics (3 works) · German (3 works) · History (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · German Colonialism and Identity Studies (2 works) · German History and Society (2 works) · Law (2 works)