Christopher Sweetapple
Christopher Sweetapple is an anthropologist from metro Detroit. After completing his BA at Western Michigan University (Islamic Studies), he pursued his MA in sociocultural anthropology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, became a graduate fellow in the Legal Studies program there, and is currently completing his PhD. He relishes teaching (and) adventurous scholarship. His dissertation is based on ethnographic fieldwork he conducted intermittently between 2006 and 2013, supported by UMass’ European Field Studies program in the Anthro- pology Department, The Wenner-Gren Foundation, as well as the National Science Foundation. In between teaching, studying and researching, he has also been engaged in labor, queer, and anti-racist activism. He now lives in Berlin, Germany.
Bücher
The Queer Intersectional in Contemporary Germany
Anti-racist and queer politics have tentatively converged in the activist agendas, organizing strategies and political discourses of the radical left all over the world. The essays represent a small snapshot of writers working at this point of convergence between anti-racist and queer politics and scholarship from the context of Germany. These four writers and texts provide a compelling introduction to what the introductory essay calls »a Berlin chapter of the Queer Intersectional«, that is, an international justice movement conducted in the key of academic analysis and political speech which takes inspiration from and seeks to synthesize the fruitful concoction of anti-racist, queer, feminist and anti-capitalist traditions, movements and theories.