{"657895":{"#nid":"657895","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Kallin Publishes Book Chapter on German Comedians Fighting Racist Stereotypes","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/iac.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/britta-kallin\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EBritta Kallin\u003C\/a\u003E, associate professor of German and director of graduate studies in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/modlangs.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Modern Languages\u003C\/a\u003E, contributed a chapter to the new book \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/title\/GezenMinority\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EMinority Discourses in Germany since 1990\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/a\u003E Kallin\u0026rsquo;s chapter is titled \u0026ldquo;German Comedians Combatting Racist Stereotypes and Discrimination:\u0026nbsp;Oliver Polak, Dave Davis, and Serdar Somuncu.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe chapter explores how Polak, Davis, and Somuncu question \u0026ldquo;established norms of whiteness and Christianity\u0026rdquo; in Germany and are still present in the current German national narrative.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The comedians\u0026rsquo; shows problematize the idea of a homogenous, unmarked white German identity,\u0026rdquo; the abstract states. \u0026ldquo;Despite shortcomings of reproducing misogynist, ableist, and homophobic stereotypes, the comedians perform anti-racist, transcultural comedy by including transgressive humor to resist racism, debunk the assumed fixity of the German cultural imaginary, and normalize a multi-ethnic Germany.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The chapter appeared in the book \u0027Minority Discourses in Germany since 1990.\u0027"}],"uid":"36009","created_gmt":"2022-05-03 15:30:17","changed_gmt":"2022-05-03 15:30:50","author":"cwhittle9","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2022-05-03T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2022-05-03T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"651970":{"id":"651970","type":"image","title":"Britta Kallin","body":null,"created":"1634918767","gmt_created":"2021-10-22 16:06:07","changed":"1634918767","gmt_changed":"2021-10-22 16:06:07","alt":"","file":{"fid":"247355","name":"Britta.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Britta.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Britta.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":27594,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Britta.jpeg?itok=aK_qEok1"}}},"media_ids":["651970"],"groups":[{"id":"648414","name":"_OLD: Ivan Allen College \u0022The Buzz\u0022"},{"id":"1284","name":"School of Modern Languages"}],"categories":[{"id":"132","name":"Institute Leadership"}],"keywords":[{"id":"3877","name":"german"},{"id":"190514","name":"comedians"},{"id":"190515","name":"race studies"},{"id":"180773","name":"Britta Kallin"},{"id":"167342","name":"School of Modern Languages"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECassidy Chreene Whittle\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:cwhittle9@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ecwhittle9@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}