Damani James Partridge

Damani J. Partridge is a Professor of Anthropology and Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan (U of M). He is also an affiliate with the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, the vice chair of the U of M Faculty Senate, the vice president of the German Studies Association, and the chair of the Ann Arbor Film Festival’s Board of Directors. He has published broadly on questions of citizenship, anti-citizenship, noncitizen politics, urban futures, decoloniality, sexuality, post-Cold War “freedom,” Holocaust memorialization, African-American military occupation, Global Blackness, anti-Blackness, the culture and politics of “fair trade,” and the Obama moment in Berlin. He has made and worked on documentaries for private and public broadcasters in the United States and Canada, and currently directs the Filming Future Cities Project in Detroit and Berlin (see filmingfuturecities.org). His first book, Hypersexuality and headscarves: Race, sex, and citizenship in the new Germany,” was published in the New Anthropologies of Europe series with Indiana University Press in 2012. His most recent book, Blackness as a Universal Claim: Holocaust Heritage, Noncitizen Politics, and Black Power in Berlin was published with the University of California Press in 2023.