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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.ÿ As this struggle continues, these young adultsÿ 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.
"Arab America is a vital intervention in the growing field of Arab-American studies. At once an historical overview and an ethnographic study, it portrays a complex picture of activism as it negotiates Arabness in America...Organized around the tensions entailed in living on the hyphen of "Arab-American" identity, the text insightfully highlights the dilemmas of a diaspora in an empire deeply embedded in the Middle East. Naber perceptively engages the feminist call for intersectionality in ways that are productive, dynamic and fresh." Ella Shohat, author of Taboo Memories, Diasporic Voices
| Acknowledgments | p. vii |
| Introduction: Articulating Arabness | p. 1 |
| From Model Minority to Problem Minority | p. 25 |
| The Politics of Cultural Authenticity | p. 63 |
| Muslim First, Arab Second | p. 111 |
| Dirty Laundry | p. 159 |
| Diasporic Fermnist Anti-Imperialism | p. 203 |
| Conclusion: Toward a Diasporic Feminist Critique | p. 247 |
| Notes | p. 255 |
| Bibliography | p. 273 |
| Index | p. 293 |
| About the Author | p. 310 |
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ISBN: 9780814758878
ISBN-10: 0814758878
Series: Nation of Newcomers
Audience:
Professional
Format:
Paperback
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 320
Published: 20th July 2012
Dimensions (cm): 22.6 x 15.0
x 2.3
Weight (kg): 0.363
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