Blood and Culture: Youth, Right-Wing Extremism, and National Belonging in Contemporary Germany (Politics, History, and Culture)
“Blood and Cultureis an extremely important ethnographic account of a phenomenon that is often examined in a quantitative or theoretical manner. Cynthia Miller-Idriss talks to working-class German youth—high-school students in the process of studying for a ‘trade’—and elicits from them their experience of what it means to be German in a country that is increasingly diverse and where the memory of World War II can no longer serve as an ‘excuse’ for not expressing national pride. She makes a convincing case that nation-ness differs not only across nations but across generations within the same nation-state.”—Mabel Berezin, author ofIlliberal Politics in Neoliberal Times: Culture, Security and Populism in the New Europe