Diversity, Decolonization, & the German Curriculum (DDGC) is a scholarly collective and forum for transnational and transdisciplinary German studies. Members of the collective recognize that oppression persists today around the world and commit to teaching and scholarship in the service of ending oppression. Routinely, this oppression expresses itself as intersectional violence against people, based upon 

• Racialization: through racism, anti-Blackness, colorism, ethnicization, settler practices, Indigenous erasure, and white supremacy;

• Regimes of embodiment: through normative sex, gender, sexuality, ableism;  

• Elite social distinctions: through class, caste, educational credentialing, deskilling, neoliberal competition, and extreme meritocracy; 

• Regimes of expression: through language, accent, native-speakerism, delanguaging, intellectual pedigree;

• Regimes of civic order: through citizenship, nationalism, status vulnerability, ascriptions of permanence and impermanence; anti-Muslim and anti-Jewish fear-mongering;

• Regimes of deprivation: through wealth, debt, impoverishment, structural precarity, involuntary volunteerism, and coercive entrepreneurial individualism.

  DDGC Guiding Principles