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Author Naber, Nadine Christine.

Title Arab America : gender, cultural politics, and activism / Nadine Naber
Published New York : New York University Press, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (x, 310 pages) : illustrations
Series Nation of newcomers : immigrant history as American history
Nation of newcomers.
Contents Introduction : articulating arabness -- From model minority to problem minority -- The politics of cultural authenticity -- Muslim first, Arab second -- Dirty laundry -- Diasporic feminist anti-imperialism -- Conclusion : toward a diasporic feminist critique
Summary Arab Americans are one of the most misunderstood segments of the U.S. population, especially after the events of 9/11. In Arab America, Nadine Naber tells the stories of second generation Arab American young adults living in the San Francisco Bay Area, most of whom are political activists engaged in two culturalist movements that draw on the conditions of diaspora, a Muslim global justice and a Leftist Arab movement. Writing from a transnational feminist perspective, Naber reveals the complex and at times contradictory cultural and political processes through which Arabness is forged in the contemporary United States, and explores the apparently intra-communal cultural concepts of religion, family, gender, and sexuality as the battleground on which Arab American young adults and the looming world of America all wrangle. As this struggle continues, these young adults reject Orientalist thought, producing counter-narratives that open up new possibilities for transcending the limitations of Orientalist, imperialist, and conventional nationalist articulations of self, possibilities that ground concepts of religion, family, gender, and sexuality in some of the most urgent issues of our times: immigration politics, racial justice struggles, and U.S. militarism and war
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Arab Americans -- Social conditions
Arab American women -- Social conditions
Arab Americans -- Ethnic identity
Arab Americans -- Politics and government
Sex role -- United States
Feminist theory.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Arab Americans -- Ethnic identity
Arab Americans -- Social conditions
Feminist theory
Sex role
Araber
Soziale Situation
Ethnische Identität
Geschlechterrolle
United States
USA
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2012009401
ISBN 0814759203
9780814759202
9780814758885
0814758886