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Interrogating Integration

Sport, Celebrity, and Scandal in the Making of New Germany

by Kate Zambon
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Interrogating Integration explores how international sporting spectacles, media campaigns, and public debates construct racialized national identity in an era of rising right-wing nationalism. Across Europe, "integration" has emerged as a guiding concept to regulate cultural differences, particularly in Germany, where integration became a watchword after the introduction of birthright citizenship in 2000. The legal expansion of German citizenship threatened the homogeneous definition of the nation and spurred increased scrutiny of immigrants and Germans of color, primarily Muslim and Black Germans. This opened a new chapter in the long struggle over German identity. The celebrations, scandals, and debates analyzed here reveal how the admission of new citizens inspired an optimistic cosmopolitanism that claimed to differentiate the new Germany from its fascist past while simultaneously reinscribing racialized hierarchies and providing fuel for rising far-right politics.

Using touchstones of public memory, including events surrounding men's World Cup soccer and the record-breaking success of a book blaming Muslims for Germany's decline, Zambon examines persistent problems in European conceptions of race, where racializing projects take place under an "ideology of racelessness" and the atrocities of historical and transnational racisms are used to deny current local forms of racism.

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