European others : queering ethnicity in postnational Europe /
Fatima El-Tayeb.
- Minneapolis ; London : University of Minnesota Press, 2011.
- xlvi, 253 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
- Difference incorporated
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: theorizing urban minority communities in postnational Europe -- "Stranger in my own country" : European identities, migration, and diasporic soundscapes -- Dimensions of diaspora : women of color feminism, black Europe, and queer memory discourses -- Secular submissions : Muslim Europeans, female bodies, and performative politics -- "Because it is our stepfatherland" : queering European public spaces -- Conclusion: "an infinite and undefinable movement".
European Others 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 acitivism. Using a notable variety of sources, from drag performances to feminist Muslim activism and Euro hip-hop, Fatima El-Tayeb 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. She combines theoretical influences from both sides of the Atlantic to lay bare how Europeans of color are integral to the continent's past, present, and, inevitably, future.