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Becoming Arab in London: performativity and the undoing of identity

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Aly, Ramy M. K

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Pluto Press

Publication Date

2015

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English

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Everyday Arabness

Tresspassing: the reach of performativity

Re-reading sex and temperament

Getting stuck between performance and performativity

Performative race: the injunctions "to be" ethnic in Britain

1. Critical junctures in the making of Arab London

Struggles of the homeland: students and activists 1924-73

London for sale: playboy princes and the Petrodollar Invasion

The Stray Dogs in London: political purges 1977-89

War and the making of British Arabs

Migration, ethnic counting and the racialisation of Arabness

Making and unmaking Arab London

2. Learning to be Arab: growing up in London

The war at school

Learning to be an Arab man

Gendering narratives and Arabs in hiding

(Re)citing masculine heroism

Learning to be an Arab woman

One performance, competing structures of subjection

Contested recitations of identitarian authenticity

3. Going for Shisha: doing ethnicity, gender and class

Shisha: the aromas of gender, ethnicity and morality

The walk of shame

Our kind of people, our kind of place

4. Dancing class: choreographing Arabness in London

Emirs and emiras: partying with the stereotype of Arab wealth

No sex please we're Arabs

Assuming a position on dance

Raqs: performance, comportment and sexuality

The dancing men: gender parody or ambiguity?

5. Reclaiming the Orient through the diasporic gaze

Orientalism in art: A1-Qanoon

An Orient in my likeness

The encrypted others of melancholia

6. Performativity and the undoing of identity

A performative reading of becoming Arab in London.

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Subjects

Araber
Arabes
Arabes -- Angleterre -- Londres
Arabs
Arabs -- England -- London
Culture diffusion
Discrimination & Race Relations
Electronic books
England -- London
Ethnische Identität
Etnicitet
Geschlechterrolle
Kulturell assimilation
Kulturell identitet
London
Minority Studies
SOCIAL SCIENCE
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban
Sociology
Sozialisation
Urban

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Aly, Ramy M. K. Author

ISBN

9780745333588
9781783711574
9781783711581
9780745333595
9781783711567

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