Fatima El-Tayeb’s European Others: Belonging from Below

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Fatima El-Tayeb · Cultural and ethnic studies · University of Minnesota Press, 2011 · English

In European Others: Queering Ethnicity in Postnational Europe, Fatima El-Tayeb examines how racialized communities challenge narrow ideas of who belongs in Europe. Music, performance, activism, gender, and sexuality become routes into understanding identities and solidarities made across national boundaries.

Why we are reading it

The book offers a wider European context for BGHRA conversations about racialization, community knowledge, and the right to belong.

BGHRA connection

El-Tayeb delivered a keynote at the 2018 Toronto conference, discussed in Rosemarie Peña’s account of BGHRA’s scholarly activism.

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Pair it with Showing Our Colors and Noah Sow’s Deutschland Schwarz Weiß. Explore El-Tayeb’s publisher page for further information.

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