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Introduction The price of the ticket 1
1 Constructing Caucasians : a brief history of whiteness 13
2 Performing whiteness : law, dramaturgy, and the paradox of Middle Eastern racial classification 35
3 From friendly foreigner to enemy race : selective racialization, covering, and the negotiation of Middle Eastern American identity 64
4 The last minstrel show? : Middle Easterners in media 90
5 Threat level orange : the war on terrorism and the assault on Middle Eastern civil rights 114
6 Lifting the veil : thinking about reform 165
Conclusion 183
Notes 185
Index 227
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Kevin Shipley
reviewed Whitewashed on December 25, 2009
Whitewashed
Insightful introduction to the legal and cultural bind of Middle Eastern-origin communities. The short of it - that while individuals of Middle Eastern ancestry have become quite visible in the US, their ancestry is almost always ignored in mainstream discussions and the desire of many immigrants and their children to fit into the mainstream has likewise created a sort of national invisibility until post-Sept. 11th. This has made it more difficult for Middle Eastern peoples to politically organize themselves in the current era of Islamophobia and immigration raids.
The author is a legal scholar and approaches the subject as a scholar - with a lot of legal terms and footnotes. Not the most friendly book for non-academics.
I also gave it only 3 stars because it's proposed solutions to Middle Easterner social problems is limited to short-term solutions, some legal and some political, but all within the narrow confines allowed by the relatively conservative legal/social system of the US.
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