Middle Eastern Americans: The Effects of Stigma on Attitudes Toward Counseling

Despite legal classification as White, Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) Americans experience high levels of discrimination, suggesting low social status precludes them from accessing the White racial category. After first demonstrating that the rated Whiteness of MENA Americans influences support for discriminatory policies (Study 1), the present research explores ratings and perceptions of Whiteness of MENA Americans by demonstrating how MENA ethnicities shift racial categorization of prototypically White and racially ambiguous targets (Studies 2–4), and how MENA Americans’ social status influences rated Whiteness (Study 5). As few studies have explored the relative Whiteness of different ethnicities in the United States despite the fluid history of the White racial category, the present studies have implications for the processes that inform White categorization and lay categorizations of MENA Americans.

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Whither the Asian American Coalition?

Pacific Historical Review ◽

10.1525/phr.2007.76.4.585 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 76 (4) ◽

pp. 585-604 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Paul Spickard

Keyword(s):

Asian American ◽

American History ◽

Middle Eastern ◽

Filipino Americans ◽

Asian Origin ◽

Asian American History ◽

International Adoptees ◽

History Of ◽

The 1960S ◽

Middle Eastern Americans

This article offers a brief history of the Asian American coalition and suggests how possible new directions for the coalition in the future may affect the scope and preoccupations of Asian American history as it will be written. ““Asian American”” was an idea invented in the 1960s to bring together Chinese, Japanese, and Filipino Americans for strategic purposes. Soon other Asian-origin groups, such as Korean, Vietnamese, and South Asian Americans, were added. The article considers four groups who some people have suggested have strategic links with the Asian American coalition——Pacific Islander Americans, multiracial people of part-Asian descent, international adoptees from Asian countries, and Arab and other Middle Eastern Americans. It examines whether and how each group might be considered part of the Asian American coalition, and what impact their inclusion might have on the writing of Asian American history.

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