Whitewashed : America's invisible Middle Eastern minority /
Middle Easterners: Sometimes White, Sometimes Not - an article by John Tehranian. The Middle Eastern question lies at the heart of the most pressing issues of our time: the war in Iraq and on terrorism, the growing tension between preservation of our national security and protection of our civil rig...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
New York University Press,
©2009.
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| Series: | Critical America.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: the price of the ticket
- Constructing caucasians: a brief history of whiteness
- Performing whiteness: law, dramaturgy, and the paradox of Middle Eastern racial classification
- From friendly foreigner to enemy race: selective racialization, covering, and the negotiation of Middle Eastern American identity
- The last minstrel show? Middle Easterners in media
- Threat level orange: the war on terrorism and the assault on Middle Eastern civil rights
- Lifting the veil: thinking about reform.