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UNINA9910789394803321 |
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Memmi Albert |
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Decolonization and the decolonized / / Albert Memmi ; translated by Robert Bononno |
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Minneapolis, MN : , : University of Minnesota Press, , [2006] |
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©2006 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (164 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Postcolonialism - Arab countries |
Cultural fusion - Arab countries |
Ethnopsychology - Arab countries |
National characteristics, Arab |
Arabs - Foreign countries |
Arab countries Emigration and immigration |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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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 |
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In this time of global instability and widespread violence, Albert Memmi-author of the highly influential and groundbreaking work The |
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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 |
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UNINA9910838165703321 |
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Autore |
Tehranian John |
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Whitewashed : America's invisible Middle Eastern minority / / John Tehranian |
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New York, : New York University Press, c2009 |
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New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [2008] |
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2008 |
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9780814784235 |
0814784232 |
9780814783276 |
0814783279 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (256 p.) |
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Collana |
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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 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-226) and index. |
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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 |
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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 |
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