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Karyn McKinney uses written autobiographies solicited from young
white people to empirically analyze the contours of the white
experience in U.S. society. This text offers a unique view of
whiteness based on the rich data provided by whites themselves,
writing about what it means to be white.
The average white American adolescent has no concept of his or her
racial identity. Race is something that only African Americans or
Latino/a kids have to deal with is the common perception among
white youth. In fact, most young people rarely think about their
whiteness as it is an invisible identity. In Being White,
sociologist Karyn McKinney explores what she calls everyday
whiteness, that is, whiteness as lived by everyday experience. By
looking into the lives of young white people, McKinney provides a
fascinating portrait of the contours of white experience in
American society. Beyond the invisibility of whiteness, she also
finds that most young whites consider their racial identity a
liability rather than a privilege. This is an explosive book that
sheds light on a rarely studied or discussed topic.
The place of Middle Easterners in the racial hierarchy of the
United States remains relatively unexplored in scholarly research.
In this book this authors present the everyday experiences of this
population by specifically focusing on Arab and Iranian Americans.
Using focus groups and interviews, respondents were asked to
comment on their everyday experiences in the realms of public
spaces, educational settings, work, housing, and family. Through
concrete descriptions and analysis of how Arab and Iranian
Americans are confronted with matters of ethnic and racial
inequality, this work's primary aim is to debunk entrenched
stereotypes by bringing to the forefront the human complexity of
the Middle Eastern experience. Marvasti and McKinney argue that the
discrimination and exclusion faced by this group cannot be fully
understood using the existing paradigm of minority-majority group
interactions. The political tensions between the U.S. and various
Islamic countries in the Middle East combined with the September
11th terrorist attacks have cast Arab and Iranian Americans as a
unique minority group. These facts have created a condition of
hostility and suspicion in the daily interactions between Middle
Eastern Americans and other Americans that is not faced by any
other ethnic group today. At the same time, while there is a
growing recognition in the sociological study of race and ethnicity
of the so-called 'browning of America, ' the research literature
does not address how Middle Easterners figure into this demographic
shift. This text will fill these general gaps in the race and
ethnicity literature by making visible this minority group's
everyday experiences and their strategies for coping with and
resisting discrimination
The place of Middle Easterners in the racial hierarchy of the
United States remains relatively unexplored in scholarly research.
In this book this authors present the everyday experiences of this
population by specifically focusing on Arab and Iranian Americans.
Using focus groups and interviews, respondents were asked to
comment on their everyday experiences in the realms of public
spaces, educational settings, work, housing, and family. Through
concrete descriptions and analysis of how Arab and Iranian
Americans are confronted with matters of ethnic and racial
inequality, this work's primary aim is to debunk entrenched
stereotypes by bringing to the forefront the human complexity of
the Middle Eastern experience. Marvasti and McKinney argue that the
discrimination and exclusion faced by this group cannot be fully
understood using the existing paradigm of minority-majority group
interactions. The political tensions between the U.S. and various
Islamic countries in the Middle East combined with the September
11th terrorist attacks have cast Arab and Iranian Americans as a
unique minority group. These facts have created a condition of
hostility and suspicion in the daily interactions between Middle
Eastern Americans and other Americans that is not faced by any
other ethnic group today. At the same time, while there is a
growing recognition in the sociological study of race and ethnicity
of the so-called 'browning of America, ' the research literature
does not address how Middle Easterners figure into this demographic
shift. This text will fill these general gaps in the race and
ethnicity literature by making visible this minority group's
everyday experiences and their strategies for coping with and
resisting discrimination
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