Postracial Europe?
Minority Activism and the Queering of Ethnicity

Fatima El-Tayeb

The Subtle Racializations of Sexuality 2

Vortrag 14. November 2011, 19.30, ICI Berlin

In ihrem Vortrag spürt El-Tayeb Formen von Rassisierung nach, die in sehr speziellen Konfigurationen von race, Religion, Kolonialismus, Sexualität, Nation und „Europäertum“ verwurzelt sind. Diese Konfiguration situierte rassisierte Gemeinschaften in einen „queeren“ Raum-Zeit-Konstellation, die wiederum als Quelle für translokale Widerstandsstrategien wirkt. Ein Fokus liegt auf dem raum-zeitlichen Queeren von Ethnizität durch eine neoliberale Restrukturierung der Stadt, in der die symbolische Inklusion der weißen LGBT-Gemeinschaft von der Exklusion von PoC und der Löschung von QPoC-Positionalität abhängt.

This talk draws from a larger project that traces Europe-wide forms of racialization and translocal strategies of resistance to them. The latter originate (in) a queer of color identity and activism shaped by transnational movements, central among them U.S. women of color feminism and HipHop, but also rooted in very particular configurations of race, religion, colonialism, sexuality, nation and “Europeanness.” These configurations situate racialized communities in a “queer” space and time constellation that in turn provides the source for a particularly European queering of ethnicity. I will briefly sketch this larger framework, then explore the spatio-temporal queering of communities of color through a neoliberal restructuring of the city, in which the symbolic inclusion of the white LGBT community is dependent on the exclusion of people of color and on the erasure of q queer of color positionality.

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Fatima El-Tayeb is associate professor in the departments of literature and ethnic studies and associate director of critical gender studies at the University of California, San Diego. Her most recent publications include European Others. Queering Ethnicity in Postnational Europe (University of Minnesota Press 2011),  “’Gays who cannot properly be gay’: Queer Muslims in the neoliberal European City,” in European Journal of Women’s Studies, 2011, and “’The Forces of Creolization.‘ Colorblindness and Visible Minorities in the New Europe,“ in Françoise Lionnet, Shu-mei Shi (eds), The Creolization of Theory, (Duke University Press 2011).

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Teil von The Subtle Racializations of Sexuality (Vortragsreihe 2011/12)