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Holocaust Mahnmal (Memorial): Monumental Memory amidst Contemporary Race

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This essay examines the relationship between contemporary racialized subjects in Germany and the process of Holocaust memorialization. I ask why youths from these contexts fail to see themselves in the process of Holocaust memorialization, and why that process fails to see them in it. My argument is not about equivalences, but instead I examine the ways in which the monumentalization of Holocaust memory has inadvertently worked to exclude both relevant subjects and potential participants from the process of memorialization. That process as a monumental enterprise has also worked to sever connections between racialist memory and contemporary racism. The monumental display of what presents itself, at times, as moral superiority does not adequately attend to the everyday, mundane, repeatable qualities of racialized exclusion today, or in the past.

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52(4)

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820-850

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Partridge, Damani J. Holocaust Mahnmal (Memorial): Monumental Memory amidst Contemporary Race. Comparative Studies in Society and History. 2010: 820-850.  https://archive.jpr.org.uk/10.1017/S0010417510000472