Arab America: Gender, Cultural Politics, and Activism (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780814758878)

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.

For more, check out the author-run Facebook page for Arab America.

Author: Nadine Naber
ISBN-10: 0814758878
ISBN-13: 9780814758878
Publisher: New York University Press
Language: English
Published: 08/17/2012
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.80h x 6.00w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 03/01/2013