Damani J Partridge
Biographic Data
| ID | 3586783 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Damani J Partridge |
| GIVEN NAMES | Damani J |
| FAMILY NAME | Partridge |
| SIGNATURE | PARTRIDGE D J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 76 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Remembering to Change the World—Organizing Transnationally against Atrocity
When I first visited Auschwitz, I visited it as an analyst, a cultural anthropologist accompanying a group of mostly Turkish, Turkish-German, Palestinian, and Palestinian-German youth participating in a federally and locally sponsored program meant to teach them about German history and to address their own antisemitism. 1 I was there as an observer who could not help but be dislodged from my professional role and deeply moved by flakes of bone o…
Blackness as a Universal Claim: Holocaust Heritage, Noncitizen Futures, and Black Power in Berlin
"In this bold and provocative new book, Damani J. Partridge examines the possibilities and limits for a universalized Black politics. German youth of Turkish, Arab, and African descent use claims of Blackness to hold states and other institutions accountable for racism today. Partridge tracks how these young people take on the expressions of Black Power, acting out the scene from the 1968 Olympics, proclaiming "I am Malcolm X," expressing mutual …
Does after race mean after this world
This piece centrally engages Alana Lentin’s book, Why Race Still Matters, and thinks about it in relation to changing the world. If we undo “race” will we undo racism? Lentin’s charge to undo race raises further questions about this undoing in relation to particular experiences of racism. Along these lines, the piece works through her critique of Afropessimism and thinks through the necessity to take seriously the critique of anti-Black racism as…
What would it mean to decolonize Detroit: How does anthropology figure
With Detroit as its principal site, this essay examines the possibility and the hope for developing a decolonial practice as part of the research in and of a “Black” city. What can we learn from Detroit and what needs to change about ethnography in order for this kind of learning to take place? Can ethnography become a decolonial form or must it be undone and re-emerge as a different kind of intervention in order to effectively contribute to a de…
Against invisibilization-towards 'Blackness' as a universal claim
From post-World War II Germany to contemporary contexts beyond Europe and the United States, this contribution considers the extent to which "Blackness" has become a universal claim. It thinks through this claim in relation to Aihwa Ong's discussion of invisibilization. In a context in which new immigrants to countries such as the United States or Germany face at best exclusionary incorporation through a process that also appends their potential …
"Interrogating the Histories and Futures of "Diversity
Drawing on insights and examples from scholars from around the world, this volume thinks through the effects of the transnational discourses and practices of "diversity" in local, nation-state-based, and global arenas. We begin with the Regents of University of California v. Bakke (1978) and Grutter v. Bollinger (2003) US Supreme Court decisions as a way of grounding our approach. In the introduction, the authors examine the extent to which these…
Managing African Portugal: The Citizen-Migrant Distinction by Keisha Fikes
Peer Reviewed
Corporate Lives: New Perspectives on the Social Life of the Corporate Form
The introduction to this special issue of Current Anthropology calls for more anthropological attention to how the corporate form shapes and is shaped by daily life. It also traces anthropologists’ engagements with corporations over time. We present transformations in traditionally corporate arenas, such as mining and textile production, alongside parallel developments in transnational cooperatives, organic production systems, and ethnic deployme…
HolocaustMahnmal(Memorial): Monumental Memory amidst Contemporary Race
This essay examines the relationship between contemporary racialized subjects in Germany and the process of Holocaust memorialization. I ask why youths from these contexts fail to see themselves in the process of Holocaust memorialization, and why that process fails to see them in it. My argument is not about equivalences, but instead I examine the ways in which the monumentalization of Holocaust memory has inadvertently worked to exclude both re…
Corporate Lives: New Perspectives on the Social Life of the Corporate Form
The introduction to this special issue of Current Anthropology calls for more anthropological attention to how the corporate form shapes and is shaped by daily life. It also traces anthropologists’ engagements with corporations over time. We present transformations in traditionally corporate arenas, such as mining and textile production, alongside parallel developments in transnational cooperatives, organic production systems, and ethnic deployme…
HolocaustMahnmal(Memorial): Monumental Memory amidst Contemporary Race
This essay examines the relationship between contemporary racialized subjects in Germany and the process of Holocaust memorialization. I ask why youths from these contexts fail to see themselves in the process of Holocaust memorialization, and why that process fails to see them in it. My argument is not about equivalences, but instead I examine the ways in which the monumentalization of Holocaust memory has inadvertently worked to exclude both re…
"Interrogating the Histories and Futures of "Diversity
Drawing on insights and examples from scholars from around the world, this volume thinks through the effects of the transnational discourses and practices of "diversity" in local, nation-state-based, and global arenas. We begin with the Regents of University of California v. Bakke (1978) and Grutter v. Bollinger (2003) US Supreme Court decisions as a way of grounding our approach. In the introduction, the authors examine the extent to which these…
Against invisibilization-towards 'Blackness' as a universal claim
From post-World War II Germany to contemporary contexts beyond Europe and the United States, this contribution considers the extent to which "Blackness" has become a universal claim. It thinks through this claim in relation to Aihwa Ong's discussion of invisibilization. In a context in which new immigrants to countries such as the United States or Germany face at best exclusionary incorporation through a process that also appends their potential …
HolocaustMahnmal(Memorial): Monumental Memory amidst Contemporary Race
This essay examines the relationship between contemporary racialized subjects in Germany and the process of Holocaust memorialization. I ask why youths from these contexts fail to see themselves in the process of Holocaust memorialization, and why that process fails to see them in it. My argument is not about equivalences, but instead I examine the ways in which the monumentalization of Holocaust memory has inadvertently worked to exclude both re…
Corporate Lives: New Perspectives on the Social Life of the Corporate Form
The introduction to this special issue of Current Anthropology calls for more anthropological attention to how the corporate form shapes and is shaped by daily life. It also traces anthropologists’ engagements with corporations over time. We present transformations in traditionally corporate arenas, such as mining and textile production, alongside parallel developments in transnational cooperatives, organic production systems, and ethnic deployme…
Managing African Portugal: The Citizen-Migrant Distinction by Keisha Fikes
Peer Reviewed
"Interrogating the Histories and Futures of "Diversity
Drawing on insights and examples from scholars from around the world, this volume thinks through the effects of the transnational discourses and practices of "diversity" in local, nation-state-based, and global arenas. We begin with the Regents of University of California v. Bakke (1978) and Grutter v. Bollinger (2003) US Supreme Court decisions as a way of grounding our approach. In the introduction, the authors examine the extent to which these…
Against invisibilization-towards 'Blackness' as a universal claim
From post-World War II Germany to contemporary contexts beyond Europe and the United States, this contribution considers the extent to which "Blackness" has become a universal claim. It thinks through this claim in relation to Aihwa Ong's discussion of invisibilization. In a context in which new immigrants to countries such as the United States or Germany face at best exclusionary incorporation through a process that also appends their potential …
What would it mean to decolonize Detroit: How does anthropology figure
With Detroit as its principal site, this essay examines the possibility and the hope for developing a decolonial practice as part of the research in and of a “Black” city. What can we learn from Detroit and what needs to change about ethnography in order for this kind of learning to take place? Can ethnography become a decolonial form or must it be undone and re-emerge as a different kind of intervention in order to effectively contribute to a de…
Blackness as a Universal Claim: Holocaust Heritage, Noncitizen Futures, and Black Power in Berlin
"In this bold and provocative new book, Damani J. Partridge examines the possibilities and limits for a universalized Black politics. German youth of Turkish, Arab, and African descent use claims of Blackness to hold states and other institutions accountable for racism today. Partridge tracks how these young people take on the expressions of Black Power, acting out the scene from the 1968 Olympics, proclaiming "I am Malcolm X," expressing mutual …
Does after race mean after this world
This piece centrally engages Alana Lentin’s book, Why Race Still Matters, and thinks about it in relation to changing the world. If we undo “race” will we undo racism? Lentin’s charge to undo race raises further questions about this undoing in relation to particular experiences of racism. Along these lines, the piece works through her critique of Afropessimism and thinks through the necessity to take seriously the critique of anti-Black racism as…
Remembering to Change the World—Organizing Transnationally against Atrocity
When I first visited Auschwitz, I visited it as an analyst, a cultural anthropologist accompanying a group of mostly Turkish, Turkish-German, Palestinian, and Palestinian-German youth participating in a federally and locally sponsored program meant to teach them about German history and to address their own antisemitism. 1 I was there as an observer who could not help but be dislodged from my professional role and deeply moved by flakes of bone o…
Political science (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Law (5 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works) · Race, History, and American Society (3 works) · Racism (3 works)