Ethnic drag : performing race, nation, sexuality in West Germany / / Katrin Sieg.

"The Holocaust is considered a singularly atrocious event in human history, and many people have studied its causes. Yet few questions have been asked about the ways in which West Germans have "forgotten," unlearned, or reconstructed the racial beliefs at the core of the Nazi state in...

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Superior document:Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany
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Year of Publication:2009
Edition:1st pbk. ed.
Language:English
Series:Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany.
Physical Description:1 online resource (viii, 286 p. ); ill. ;
Notes:Reprint. Originally published: 2002.
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Table of Contents:
  • A prehistory : Jewish impersonation
  • Race and reconstruction : Winnetou in Bad Segeberg
  • Winnetou's grandchildren : Indian identification, ethnic expertise, white embodiment
  • The violent white gaze : drag and the critique of fascism
  • Queer colonialism : ethnographic authority and homosexual desire
  • Ethnic travesties.