Unlearning the Arab Muslim Hyphen

2021 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-17
Author(s):  
Ibtisam M. Abujad
Keyword(s):  
American Studies ◽  
Ethnic Studies ◽  
First Century ◽  
Arab American ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Arab Muslim ◽  
Global North ◽  
Twenty First Century

Hyphenated identities continue to be prominent in twenty-first century scholarship meant to uncover and confront assimilative structures of power in the Global North. However, the “Arab-Muslim” hyphen, in particular, continues to be used as a convention without a proper examination of its assimilative and racial dimensions. This commentary confronts the power dynamics at play in the use of the hyphen and calls for a more equitable understanding of Muslimness as it intersects and diverges from American Arabness. Ultimately, this commentary seeks to build from the already vigorous resistance to xenophobia and ethnocentricity in Muslim Studies, Arab American Studies, and other branches of Ethnic Studies by calling attention to the ways in which the hyphen counteracts the scholarly imperative of equity at the center of these frameworks of inquiry.

scholarly journals Speculative Fiction, Sociology, and Surveillance Studies: Towards a Methodology of the Surveillance Imaginary

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 414-424
Author(s):  
Jade Hinchliffe
Keyword(s):  
Speculative Fiction ◽  
First Century ◽  
Major Theme ◽  
Literary Genres ◽  
Surveillance Studies ◽  
Dystopian Fiction ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
Utopian Fiction ◽  
Global North ◽  
Twenty First Century

Utopian theorists often speak about the merits of reading utopian fiction in order to reimagine and rebuild a better world, but dystopian fiction is often overlooked. This is, in my view, misguided because dystopian fiction, like utopian fiction, diagnoses issues with the present, inspires activism and resistance, and, in the twenty-first century, often presents ideas of how to effect positive change through collective activism. As speculative literary genres concerned with world-building, utopian and dystopian fiction have inherent sociological concerns. These texts can therefore be utilised by sociologists and other researchers beyond the arts and humanities. Speculative fiction is important to the field of surveillance studies not only because surveillance is a major theme in these literary texts but also because their formal properties provide us with the language, imagery, and feelings associated with being under surveillance. Twenty-first-century utopian and dystopian fiction has not been thoroughly examined by surveillance scholars. Analysis of utopian and dystopian fiction in this field has also focused on texts set in, and written by authors from, the global north. Considering the plethora of dystopian novels in and beyond the global north published in recent years that discuss surveillance, the neglect of the study of these texts to date is an oversight.

scholarly journals The poverty of numbers: reflections on the legitimacy of global development indicators

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 485-497 ◽  
Author(s):  
Morag Goodwin
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
First Century ◽  
Global Development ◽  
Development Indicators ◽  
Development Institutions ◽  
History Of ◽  
Global North ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The Many

AbstractIt is no surprise that development institutions and actors have taken to indicators with such enthusiasm. Where indicators are both a form of knowledge production and simultaneously a technology of governance, they are a form of soft powers that allow such actors to set the standards for what it is to be developed in the twenty-first century. Such measures of civilisation have been dominant throughout a history of Global North–South encounters: measurement was central to the many forms of colonial control, from map-making to craniometry, to the global ‘discovery’ of poverty in the 1940s. This paper seeks to place development indicators in this colonial context by focusing on the issue of comparability or the global claim that underpins global development indicators.

Asian International Students at U.S. Universities in the Post-2008 Collapse Era

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cynthia Wu
Keyword(s):  
International Students ◽  
Asian American ◽  
American Studies ◽  
First Century ◽  
Asian American Studies ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
Asian International Students ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S

Chapter 12 addresses the ways in which Asian American Studies’ overriding insistence on recovering a useable resistant past via the aforementioned rights movements of the 1960s and 1970s has made it troublingly reluctant to examine relevant accommodation. As the title suggests, Wu considers how the intellectual trajectory of the field, dominated by a limited U.S.-centrism, has proved largely ineffective with regard to the twenty-first century influx of international students from Asian countries at U.S. universities.

Buchbesprechungen

2019 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 405-427
Keyword(s):  
American Studies ◽  
First Century ◽  
American Fiction ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Monograph Series ◽  
Theodor Storm ◽  
Twenty First Century

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scholarly journals Texas Resistance: Mexican American Studies and the Fight Against Whiteness and White Supremacy in K-12 at the Turn of the 21st Century

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 64-84
Author(s):  
Josué Puente ◽  
Stephanie Alvarez
Keyword(s):  
Mexican American ◽  
American Studies ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
First Century ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Mexican American Studies ◽  
Language And Literature ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
K 12 ◽  
The Way

This essay recounts the efforts by various groups throughout Texas with a special emphasis on the Rio Grande Valley to implement Mexican American Studies at the turn of the twenty-first century. We offer a historical timeline of events that demonstrates how the Mexican American Studies course came into existence. We also detail the way in which some Mexican American Studies courses were implemented. In other cases, we describe the way different groups were able to offer professional development to teachers to help them incorporate more Mexican American Studies content in their non-Mexican American studies courses or provide the community with the resources on how to include Mexican American Studies at their school. The common theme throughout is an undeniable resistance and mobilization on the part of many, hundreds, of educators, students, and community members to ensure that the youth do not continue to receive a whitewashed education, to ensure that students receive a more accurate representation of history, culture, language, and literature. In essence, the essay details a very hard-fought battle against White supremacy in the schools at the turn of the twenty-first century in Texas in which Mexican American Studies emerged victorious many steps of the way.

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