| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 255 pages) : illustrations |
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Anthropology, culture, and society |
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Anthropology, culture, and society.
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| Contents |
Everyday Arabness -- Tresspassing: the reach of performativity -- Re-reading sex and temperament -- Getting stuck between performance and performativity -- Performative race: the injunctions "to be" ethnic in Britain -- 1. Critical junctures in the making of Arab London -- Struggles of the homeland: students and activists 1924-73 -- London for sale: playboy princes and the Petrodollar Invasion -- The Stray Dogs in London: political purges 1977-89 -- War and the making of British Arabs -- Migration, ethnic counting and the racialisation of Arabness -- Making and unmaking Arab London |
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2. Learning to be Arab: growing up in London -- The war at school -- Learning to be an Arab man -- Gendering narratives and Arabs in hiding -- (Re)citing masculine heroism -- Learning to be an Arab woman -- One performance, competing structures of subjection -- Contested recitations of identitarian authenticity -- 3. Going for Shisha: doing ethnicity, gender and class -- Shisha: the aromas of gender, ethnicity and morality -- The walk of shame -- Our kind of people, our kind of place -- 4. Dancing class: choreographing Arabness in London -- Emirs and emiras: partying with the stereotype of Arab wealth -- No sex please we're Arabs -- Assuming a position on dance -- Raqs: performance, comportment and sexuality -- The dancing men: gender parody or ambiguity? -- 5. Reclaiming the Orient through the diasporic gaze -- Orientalism in art: A1-Qanoon -- An Orient in my likeness -- The encrypted others of melancholia -- 6. Performativity and the undoing of identity -- A performative reading of becoming Arab in London |
| Summary |
Annotation Ramy M.K. Aly's ethnography uncovers narratives of growing up in London, the codes of sociability at Shisha cafes and the sexual politics and ethnic self-portraits which make British-Arab men and women |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-248) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Arabs -- England -- London
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban.
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Arabs
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Araber
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Ethnische Identität
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Geschlechterrolle
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Sozialisation
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Araber.
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Etnicitet.
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Kulturell identitet.
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Kulturell assimilation.
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England -- London
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London
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London.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781783711567 |
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1783711566 |
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1783711574 |
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9781783711574 |
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1783711582 |
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9781783711581 |
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0745333591 |
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9780745333595 |
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