1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910789394803321

Autore

Memmi Albert

Titolo

Decolonization and the decolonized / / Albert Memmi ; translated by Robert Bononno

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, MN : , : University of Minnesota Press, , [2006]

©2006

ISBN

1-4529-4376-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (164 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BononnoRobert

Disciplina

325/.309174927

Soggetti

Postcolonialism - Arab countries

Cultural fusion - Arab countries

Ethnopsychology - Arab countries

National characteristics, Arab

Arabs - Foreign countries

Arab countries Emigration and immigration

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; The New Citizen; THE GREAT DISILLUSION; A PARADOXICAL POVERTY; CORRUPTION; IMPOSTERS AND POTENTATES; TYRANTS, ZEALOTS, AND SOLDIERS; DIVERSIONS, EXCUSES, AND MYTHS; A CONVENIENT CONFLICT; THE FAILURE OF THE INTELLECTUALS; FICTION AND REALITY; CULTURAL LETHARGY; THE CLERICS' PLOT; FROM REPRESSION TO VIOLENCE; A NATION BORN TOO LATE; NATIONS WITHOUT LAW; A SICK SOCIETY; GOING ABROAD; The Immigrant; THE BLESSINGS OF EXILE; FAILURE TWICE OVER; A NEW REFRAIN; THE GHETTO; HEAD SCARVES AND MÉTISSAGE; HUMILIATION; FROM HUMILIATION TO RESENTMENT

THE SOLIDARITY OF THE VANQUISHEDCORPORATE IDENTITY; ABANDONING THE MYTH OF RETURN; THE IMMIGRANT'S SON; THE ZOMBIE; FROM EXCLUSION TO DELINQUENCY; QUESTIONING INTEGRATION; RECIPROCAL DEPENDENCE; THE LANGUORS OF EUROPE; HOPE FOR THE DECOLONIZED?; TOWARD A NEW WORLD; Afterword

Sommario/riassunto

In this time of global instability and widespread violence, Albert Memmi-author of the highly influential and groundbreaking work The



Colonizer and the Colonized-turns his attention to the present-day situation of formerly colonized peoples. In Decolonization and the Decolonized, Memmi expands his intellectual engagement with the subject and examines the manifold causes of the failure of decolonization efforts throughout the world.As outspoken and controversial as ever, Memmi initiates a much-needed discussion of the ex-colonized and refuses to idealize those who are too often painted as haple

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910838165703321

Autore

Tehranian John

Titolo

Whitewashed : America's invisible Middle Eastern minority / / John Tehranian

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : New York University Press, c2009

New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [2008]

2008

ISBN

9780814784235

0814784232

9780814783276

0814783279

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 p.)

Collana

Critical America

Disciplina

305.89/4073

Soggetti

Arab Americans - Social conditions

Iranian Americans - Social conditions

Turkish Americans - Social conditions

Arab Americans - Legal status, laws, etc

Iranian Americans - Legal status, laws, etc

Turkish Americans - Legal status, laws, etc

White people - Race identity - United States

Racism - United States

Race discrimination - United States

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