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

• Autore: Tehranian John
• Pubblicazione: New York, : New York University Press, c2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (256 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.89/4073
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto geografico: United States Race relations
• Soggetto non controllato: Catch-22; Iranian-American; John; Middle-Eastern; Tehranian; analysis; analyze; bizarre; classification; combines; critical; current; events; experiences; experts; legal; personal; racial; theory; this; trends; with
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Whitewashed
• ISBN: 0-8147-8423-2; 0-8147-8327-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996571866003316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Critical America.