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Author Tehranian, John

Title Whitewashed : America's Invisible Middle Eastern Minority
Published New York : NYU Press, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (256 pages)
Series Critical America Series
Critical America.
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
Summary 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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Subject 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.
LAW -- Discrimination.
Arab Americans -- Social conditions
Iranian Americans -- Social conditions
Race discrimination
Race relations
Racism
White people -- Race identity
SUBJECT United States -- Race relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140494
Subject United States
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780814784235
0814784232