FEMST 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: White Privilege, Yellow Peril, Arab Americans
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Policing arab american girls: arab virgin/american(ized) whore dichotomy shows how arab. American families try to define proper gender and sexuality for women & girls. Americanness associated with loose morals, hypersexualization of women, trash culture in opposition to good. Arab girls : female sexuality tended to be used as part of arab immigrant families" selective assimilation strategy to simultaneously preserve arab cultural identity & assimilate to american norms of. Shifting meanings: naber argues arab american femininities were at intersection of. 2 contradictory discourses: arab cultural re-authenticity and hegemonic u. s. nationalism. Arabness and americanness seen as binary terms but sometimes boundary was permeable & shifting. Race, nation, and custom (rime); father makes decisions about who daughter can date/marry. Sexuality and class (lulu)- lesbian; parents thought she was mentally ill. Religion (nicole: even when they try to escape binaries, they often use them to articulate their identities and loyalties- self/other, us/them,
