Diversity and decolonization in German studies

"This book offers a critical look at postsecondary German Studies curricular models by engaging with scholarship on diversity and decolonization. Next to theoretical considerations about how German Studies faculty can approach diversity and decolonization, individual contributions also provide practical models and guidelines that lead to curricula, which help attend to diversity and decolonization. Connecting German Studies with critical race, whiteness, gender, sexuality, migration, and disability studies, this volume brings together German Studies scholars from a range of institutions at various levels of their career to map out a path towards decolonization and a more inclusive discipline"--Back cover.

"This book presents an approach to transform German Studies by augmenting its core values with a social justice mission rooted in Cultural Studies. ​German Studies is approaching a pivotal moment. On the one hand, the discipline is shrinking as programs face budget cuts. This enrollment decline is immediately tied to the effects following a debilitating scrutiny the discipline has received as a result of its perceived worth in light of local, regional, and national pressures to articulate the value of the humanities in the language of student professionalization. On the other hand, German Studies struggles to articulate how the study of cultural, social, and political developments in the German-speaking world can serve increasingly heterogeneous student learners. This book addresses this tension through questions of access to German Studies as they relate to student outreach and program advocacy alongside pedagogical models."--

Introduction: Diversity and decolonization in German studies / Regine Criser and Ervin Malakaj -- Accounting for our settler colonialism : toward an unsettled German studies in the United States / Ashwin Manthripragada and Emina Mušanović -- Habits of mind, habits of heart : cultivating humanity through a decolonized German studies curriculum / Amanda Randall -- Social justice in the language curriculum : interrogating the goals and outcomes of language education in college / Magda Tarnawska Senel -- Decolonizing German studies while dissecting race in the American classroom / Priscilla Layne -- Documents of colonialism and racial theorizing in the German classroom / Evan Torner -- Decolonizing the mental lexicon : critical whiteness studies perspectives in the language classroom / Maureen Gallagher and Christin Zenker -- A developmental model of intercultural competence : scaffolding the shift from culture-specific to culture-general / Beate Brunow and Britton Newman -- Study abroad otherwise / Janice McGregor -- A question of inclusion : intercultural competence, systematic racism, and the North American German classroom / Adrienne Merritt -- Supporting graduate students of colo…