Getting Respect in Germany: How People Respond to Racism (Part I ) (SoSe 2022)

Drawing on Michèle Lamont and her colleagues’ groundbreaking book titled Getting Respect (2016) and Cassi Pittman Claytor’s (2020) powerful analysis of the Black middle-class in the U.S., our project focus on the subjectivity of racism in the context of multiethnic German society (Foroutan 2018) and show how the incidents of discrimination and stigmatization are experienced from the standpoint of immigrant and minoritized people. Our aim here is to tease out the connections between responses to racism, stigmatization and discrimination and the construction of group privilege, groupness and belonging. Students’ empirical research projects may range from micro-level everyday life practices to macro-level national or European politics of responses to racism and constructions of group belonging.

For this class, it is advisable to have background knowledge on subjects on migration, citizenship and belonging as well as qualitative methods. Students are required to conduct their empirical research, participate in class discussions concerning practical issues related to their research, and present their research progress on a regular basis.

Prüfungsform: Hausarbeit