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Record Nr.

UNINA9910838165703321

Autore

Tehranian John

Titolo

Whitewashed [[electronic resource] ] : America’s Invisible Middle Eastern Minority / / John Tehranian

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : New York University Press, c2009

ISBN

0-8147-8423-2

0-8147-8327-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 p.)

Collana

Critical America

Disciplina

305.89/4073

Soggetti

Race discrimination - United States

Racism - United States

White people - Race identity - United States

Turkish Americans - Legal status, laws, etc

Iranian Americans - Legal status, laws, etc

Arab Americans - Legal status, laws, etc

Turkish Americans - Social conditions

Iranian Americans - Social conditions

Arab Americans - Social conditions

United States Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-226) and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Price of the Ticket; 1 Constructing Caucasians: A Brief History of Whiteness; 2 Performing Whiteness: Law, Dramaturgy, and the Paradox of Middle Eastern Racial Classification; 3 From Friendly Foreigner to Enemy Race: Selective Racialization, Covering, and the Negotiation of Middle Eastern American Identity; 4 The Last Minstrel Show? Middle Easterners in Media; 5 Threat Level Orange: The War on Terrorism and the Assault on Middle Eastern Civil Rights; 6 Lifting the Veil: Thinking about Reform; Conclusion; Notes; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

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 rights, and the debate over immigration, assimilation, and our national identity. Yet paradoxically, little attention is focused on our domestic Middle Eastern population and its place in American society. Unlike many other racial minorities in our country, Middle Eastern Americans have faced rising, r