Racial Knowledge and Doing Racism: The Long History of Racism in the Federal Republic of Germany.

Racial knowledge about foreigners (“Ausländer”) circulated widely and was constantly consolidated into institutional, structural, and everyday racism through various practices: in the residency rights, in the housing market, in the (denial of) political rights, and in naturalization. The discussion with the sociologist Kimiko Suda will focus on questions of the long duration of the circulation of racial knowledge and doing racism, and how these have been inscribed as systemic racism in Germany's immigration society to the present day.