Ethnographic study that examines how patterns of national identity are constructed and transformed across the generations of working-class youth in Germany and how generational gaps in national understanding inadvertently increase the appeal to neo-Nazism

Preface ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Abbreviations xvii
Introduction: Citizenship and National Belonging as Cultural Practices 1
1. Who Belongs to the Nation? 23
2. Being and Becoming in Germany 46
3. Germany's Forbidden Fruit: National Pride and National Taboos 63
4. Raising the Right Wing: Educators' Struggle to Confront the Radical Right 93
5. Teaching and Un-teaching National Identity 122
6. Blood, Culture, Birthplace 149
7. Generational Change and the Re-Imagining of Nations 169
Appendix A. Overview of the Case Studies 182
Appendix B. Methodological Overview 188
Notes 201
Bibliography 207
Index 229