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Sunday, September 24, 2017

German Election 2017 and Racism

Germany: Confronting the colonial roots of racism 'The Nazis didn't fall out of the sky, there is a deeper racist, xenophobic mindset in German history.'
By Gouri Sharma
Al-Jazeera - 17 August 2017

German right-wing populists AfD launch ‘racist’ attack on one of Angela Merkel’s ministers  Alexander Gauland said integration minister Aydan Özoguz should be ‘disposed of’ to Turkey 
Jon Stone
The Independent - Tuesday 29 August 2017

Chapter 9: Beyond Two Identities: Turkish Immigrants in Germany
Tugrul Keskin
Sociology and Human Rights: A Bill of Rights for the Twenty-First Century  Edited by: Judith Blau & Mark Frezzo
http://sk.sagepub.com/books/sociology-and-human-rights/n9.xml

Far-Right German Party Could Lead Opposition After Sunday's Election 
By Simon Schuetz
NPR - September 22, 2017
http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/09/22/552362370/far-right-german-party-could-lead-opposition-after-sundays-election

Statistically speaking, black people in Germany don’t exist
By Aamna Mohdin
Quarzt - September 23, 2017
https://qz.com/1078032/can-germany-combat-inequality-when-it-has-no-data-on-race/

Islamophobic U.S. Mega-Donor Fuels German Far-Right Party With Viral Fake News
Lee Fang
The Intercept - September 22 2017
https://theintercept.com/2017/09/22/german-election-afd-gatestone-institute/

Who are Germany's far-right AfD?
Alternative for Germany looks set to become the first far right nationalist party to enter parliament since WWII.By David Child
Al-Jazeera - 21 September 2017
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2017/09/german-election-afd-170921080912611.html

In the Centre of the Centre
Thomas Meaney writes about Angela Merkel’s kingdom
London Review of Books - Vol. 39 No. 18 · 21 September 2017 pages 8-10 | 4275 words
https://www.lrb.co.uk/v39/n18/thomas-meaney/in-the-centre-of-the-centre

Far-right German party uses ‘modern marketplace’ of the Web to breach cultural taboo
By Isaac Stanley-Becker
The Washington Post - September 23, 2017
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/09/23/far-right-german-party-uses-modern-marketplace-of-the-web-to-breach-cultural-taboo/?utm_term=.756593f29f5c

German election 2017: polls open amid fears over surge of far-right AfD
The chancellor is on course for a fourth term but the emergence of the anti-immigrant party promises a bittersweet outcome
By Philip Oltermann
The Guardian - September 24, 2017
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/sep/24/german-election-merkel-polls-open-amid-fears-over-far-right-afd-surge

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