Moving beyond familiar critiques of multiculturalism, Zambon shows how model minority figures—particularly racialized athletes, entertainment professionals, and public personalities—are instrumentalized to affirm a Judeo-Christian-coded version of a German Leitkultur, while displacing structural questions of race, belonging, and power. Integration here emerges as the central object of critique, a biopolitical regime of disciplinary sites that demand affective loyalty, individual productivity, and public visibility without extending full national recognition.
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