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Whitewashed : America's invisible Middle Eastern minority
- Title
- Whitewashed : America's invisible Middle Eastern minority / John Tehranian.
- Author
- Tehranian, John.
- Publication
- New York : New York University Press, c2009.
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Details
- Description
- ix, 246 p.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Critical America
- 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
- United States > Race relations
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-226) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: the price of the ticket -- Constructing caucasians: a brief history of whiteness -- Performing whiteness: law, dramaturgy, and the paradox of Middle Eastern racial classification -- From friendly foreigner to enemy race: selective racialization, covering, and the negotiation of Middle Eastern American identity -- The last minstrel show? Middle Easterners in media -- Threat level orange: the war on terrorism and the assault on Middle Eastern civil rights -- Lifting the veil: thinking about reform.
- Call Number
- JFE 09-1377
- ISBN
- 0814783066 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780814783061 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2008027819
- OCLC
- 228425560
- Author
- Tehranian, John.
- Title
- Whitewashed : America's invisible Middle Eastern minority / John Tehranian.
- Imprint
- New York : New York University Press, c2009.
- Series
- Critical America
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-226) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 09-1377