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Professors Ela Gezen and Jonathan Skolnik were interviewed on a recent episode of the New Books in German Studies Podcast. They discussed their recent book Minority Discourses in Germany Since 1990 together with their third co-editor, Professor Priscilla Layne of UNC Chapel Hill.

This volume explores the intersections and divergences between Black German, Turkish German, and German Jewish experiences, with reflections on the evolving academic paradigms with which these are studied. Informed by comparative approaches, the authors investigate social and aesthetic interventions into contemporary German public and political discourse on memory, racism, citizenship, immigration, and history.

The three editors talk about how they crossed the bridge between often isolated disciplinary fields and how the volume’s chapters converse with each other. They discuss four chapters in more detail and open up a path to future dialogue between scholars studying minoritized groups in Germany.

https://newbooksnetwork.com/minority-discourses-in-germany-since-1990