Imperial Whiteness and the Diasporas of Empire

Naber, Nadine

doi:10.1353/aq.2014.0068

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“…Last, militarism with the war on terror reinforms a new Orientalist (Said 1978) racialized transnational assemblage of Islam that also informs religious-political fault lines around Hinduism (Patel 2014), Judaism, and Islam. The United States’ and Europe’s distribution of military aid, the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, the rise of the Islamic State, and the global fear of terrorist attacks in the West and global South propagate racist Islamophobia in addition to postcolonial conflicts (Mama 2001; Naber 2014). The transnational assemblage that justifies invasion and militarism reifies a discursive white global order by distributing tenuous political and economic rewards to gulf state Middle East Muslim allies and by strengthening Western religious and cultural divides.…”

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A Global Critical Race and Racism Framework: Racial Entanglements and Deep and Malleable Whiteness

Christian

2018

Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

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Twenty years after Bonilla-Silva developed the analytic components of a structural race perspective and called for “comparative work on racialization in various societies,” U.S.-centric race theory continues to be mostly rooted in a U.S. focus. What is missing is a framework that explores race and racism as a modern global project that takes shape differently in diverse structural and ideological forms across all geographies but is based in global white supremacy. Drawing from Bonilla-Silva’s national racialized social systems approach, global South scholars, and critical race scholars in the world-systems tradition, the author advances a global critical race and racism framework that highlights two main areas: (1) core components that include the “state,” “economy,” “institutions,” and “discourses” and “representations,” as divided by “racist structure” and “racist ideology” and shaped by the “history” of and current forms of transnational racialization and contemporary “global” linkages, and (2) the production of deep and malleable global whiteness. With this framework, both the permanence and flexibility of racism across the globe can be seen, in all its overt, invisible, and insidious forms, that ultimately sustains global white supremacy in the twenty-first century.

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A Global Critical Race and Racism Framework: Racial Entanglements and Deep and Malleable Whiteness

Christian

2018

Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

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“…Studies of Arab American youth have documented serious bullying and discrimination since this time, leading to concerns with stress and esteem (Albdour et al., 2017; Tabbah et al., 2016). Some actively hid their Arab identities, through changing names, accents, and wardrobes, in the face of hostility within the US (Naber, 2014). Muslim, Arab, and other Americans have had their citizenship and patriotism publically and routinely questioned (Akram, 2002; Alsultany, 2012; Selod, 2015), as the rate of violent crimes against Arab Americans and Muslim Americans increased dramatically following 9/11 (ADC, 2008).…”

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US prisms and prejudice through mediating the Middle East

Wilkins

2019

International Communication Gazette

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Mediating the Middle East engages social and political constructions that articulate sentiment within the United States, with consequences not only to foreign policies and relationships, but also to experiences of Arab and Muslim citizens. Engagement with media narratives is expected to become particularly relevant when people do not share a resonating identity or direct experience with the community being projected. I position this research as an entry into how we might understand the primacy of dominant media narratives in shaping norms that contribute to discriminatory practices. Through this analysis, I focus on the concerns of Arab and Muslim Americans, considering the consequences of negative media characterizations of Islam, of Arab communities, and of the Middle East. This study builds on a national survey of adult United States citizens (n = 1416), with a targeted proportion of Arab American residents. These attitudes toward fellow citizens as well as foreign countries are considered in relation to extent of engagement with popular culture, specifically action-adventure given its role in Hollywood narratives featuring the Middle East. Attitudes toward Arab and Muslim communities within the United States as well as in the Middle East are demonstrated to be related to this form of media engagement.

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“…When riding through Hailey on his motorcycle for a Bring Bowe Home rally, Bergdahl looked like any other member of the Rolling Thunder bikers with their black clothes and abundant facial hair. But those same visual cues-the beard and what could be made intelligible as "traditional clothing"-are "associated with Arabness or Islam" (Naber 2014(Naber , 1112. Bergdahl seemed to be accommodating visual grammars of selfhood that could be intelligible to dual audiences and, in doing so, unsettling assumptions about the fundamental duality of those audiences.…”

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Fatherhood, Gender, and Interventions in the Geopolitical: Analyzing Paternal Peace, Masculinities, and War

Tidy

2018

International Political Sociology

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War and peace are gendered and gendering geopolitical processes, constituting particular configurations of masculinity and femininity. When men are considered in relation to war and peace the majority of scholarly accounts focus on soldiers and perpetrators, typically observing their place in the gendered geopolitical solely through military/ized masculinities. In contrast, this article examines fatherhood as a masculine subjectivity, interacting in a nexus with other masculinities to produce an intelligible propeace intervention in war, and considers the implications for our understandings of gender and the geopolitical. To analyze this political subjectivity of what I term "paternal peace," the article considers the case of Bob Bergdahl. Bergdahl's son was a US soldier held by a Taliban-aligned group for five years until 2014. During this time Bergdahl was publically critical of US foreign policy, presenting his son's release as part of a peace process that could end violence in Afghanistan. I unpack how Bergdahl's public political subjectivity was the outcome of a "gender project" drawing on accounts of "valley" fatherhood in combination with particular forms of diplomatic and military masculinity. I consider how Bergdahl's intervention was publically received, and how the geopolitical reach of it was pacified within gendered and racialized coding.This article considers the possibility and practice of what I term "paternal peace" and considers implications for our understandings of gender and the geopolitical. This is explored through the case of Bob Bergdahl, the father of an American soldier held by a Taliban-aligned group for five years. Bergdahl described himself as "a father who wants his son back" (Carroll 2014). His public campaign for his son's release became inextricably connected to his critiques of American foreign policy, Guantanamo Bay, and direct diplomatic overtures to his son's captors, which were framed as a chance to end the war in Afghanistan through a peace process.Men and women populate imaginations of the geopolitical as players in the gendered "universalised storyline of warring" (Baaz and Stern 2009, 496). Men and masculinities are idealized in connection with war's violence and women and femininities are idealized in relation to peace. Although scholarship has detailed the constructed rather than "natural" form of this configuration, when men are considered in relation to war, it is typically as soldiers, militarized protectors, or perpetrators, and it is explained through the concept of military/ized masculinities. In a departure from this, I reveal the multiple and interacting gendered repertoires through which men encounter, are subject to, and engage in war. I examine how politically unruly engagements in war, peace, and diplomacy can be undertaken through subject positions associated with fatherhood masculinity. I discuss how Bob

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Imperial Whiteness and the Diasporas of Empire

Cited by 20 publications

References 8 publications

A Global Critical Race and Racism Framework: Racial Entanglements and Deep and Malleable Whiteness

A Global Critical Race and Racism Framework: Racial Entanglements and Deep and Malleable Whiteness

US prisms and prejudice through mediating the Middle East

Fatherhood, Gender, and Interventions in the Geopolitical: Analyzing Paternal Peace, Masculinities, and War

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