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National Identity in Transnational Spaces: Jordanian American Identity in Michigan

机译:跨国空间中的国家认同:密歇根州的约旦美国人身份

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Given the world's renewed, intensified attention to the United States' foreign policy and interventions in the Arab Middle East, and the foundational misconceptions about Arabs among large sectors of American society, there is a growing need for better understandings of often misrepresented and misunderstood Arab American communities. The Jordanian Americans are one of these communities, though mainstream ideas of what makes one "Jordanian American" or, moreover, "Jordanian" are at best problematic. I believe that by thinking about our own neighbors in a more productive and enlightened way (that is, by not lending credence to deeply embedded stereotypes and ethnic archetypes propagated by lazy, racist, biased Western media), we may better understand the places, people, and cultures of Arabs and the Middle East―especially in a global context. This brief article adds to the growing debates on contemporary issues in Arab American identity by illuminating the intricacies and experience of one group, Jordanian Americans, through ethnographic examples. Further, situating these examples in a broader consideration of transnational identity studies allows for the modification and development of theoretical models that help us understand national identity concerns as people around the world continue to be on the move. The present work should not be considered an empirical study as such, thus my arguments rely more heavily on ethnographic and archival research instead of statistical demographics.
机译:鉴于世界对美国的外交政策和对阿拉伯中东的干预有了新的,越来越多的关注,以及在美国社会的许多部门中对阿拉伯人的基本误解,因此,人们对于更好地理解经常被错误代表和误解的阿拉伯人的需求日益增长社区。约旦美国人是这些社区中的一个,尽管使“约旦美国人”或“约旦人”成为主流的主流观点充其量是有问题的。我相信,通过以更有生产力和开悟性的方式考虑我们自己的邻居(即,不借用由懒散的,种族主义的,有偏见的西方媒体传播的根深蒂固的刻板印象和种族原型),我们可能会更好地了解这些地方,人们以及阿拉伯人和中东的文化-尤其是在全球范围内。这篇简短的文章通过人种学的例子阐明了约旦裔美国人这一群体的复杂性和经验,从而加剧了关于阿拉伯裔美国人身份当代问题的辩论。此外,将这些例子放在对跨国身份研究的更广泛考虑中,可以对理论模型进行修改和发展,以帮助我们随着世界各地人民的不断前进来理解民族身份问题。就目前的工作而言,不应将其视为实证研究,因此,我的论点在很大程度上依赖于人种学和档案学研究,而不是统计人口统计学。

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