{"id":31839,"date":"2013-06-19T16:14:57","date_gmt":"2013-06-19T16:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=31839"},"modified":"2013-06-19T16:14:57","modified_gmt":"2013-06-19T16:14:57","slug":"not-quite-white-arabs-slavs-and-the-contours-of-contested-whiteness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=31839","title":{"rendered":"Not Quite White: Arabs, Slavs, and the Contours of Contested Whiteness"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not Quite White: Arabs, Slavs, and the Contours of Contested Whiteness<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Typecast Releasing<\/a>
\n2012
\nUSA
\nEnglish
\n24 minutes<\/p>\n

Jamil Khoury<\/a><\/strong>, Director and Writer<\/p>\n

Stephen Combs<\/strong>, Director<\/p>\n

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Inspired by Jamil Khoury\u2019s short play WASP: White Arab Slovak Pole<\/em>, Not Quite White: Arabs, Slavs, and the Contours of Contested Whiteness<\/em> is a thought-provoking documentary that explores the complicated relationship of Arab and Slavic immigrants to American notions of whiteness.<\/p>\n

The film integrates scenes from WASP<\/em> alongside interviews with Arab American and Polish American academics who reflect upon contested and probationary categories of whiteness and the use of anti-Black racism as a \u201cwhitening\u201d dye.<\/p>\n

In Not Quite White<\/em>, Jamil Khoury (Artistic Director of Chicago\u2019s Silk Road Rising) draws upon his own Arab (Syrian) and Slavic (Polish and Slovak) heritage as the lens through which to investigate the broader issue of immigrants achieving whiteness and hence qualifying as \u201cfully American.\u201d The film advances society\u2019s on-going conversations about the meaning of whiteness and efforts at redefining whiteness.<\/p>\n

Not just for white people, and not just for Arabs and Slavs, Not Quite White<\/em> proceeds from the assumption that whiteness affects all our lives and that we all need to critically engage whiteness. \u201cWhiteness has everything to do with melanin and pigmentation and it has nothing to do with melanin and pigmentation,\u201d Khoury observes. \u201cWhiteness is about power and borders and authorship. And whiteness can, and does, change.\u201d<\/p>\n

The academics featured in Not Quite White<\/em> include: Roxane Assaf<\/a>, Adjunct Faculty, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Ann Hetzel Gunkel<\/a>, Director of Cultural Studies, Columbia College Chicago; John Tofik Karam<\/a>, Assistant Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies, De Paul University; Dominic A. Pacyga<\/a>, Professor of History, Columbia College Chicago.<\/p>\n

DVD copies also include On Whiteness<\/em>, a 16-minute video essay in which writer and co-director Jamil Khoury discusses the themes and ideas presented in his film. Khoury\u2019s short film both\/and<\/em> is also available from Typecast here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not Quite White: Arabs, Slavs, and the Contours of Contested Whiteness Typecast Releasing 2012 USA English 24 minutes Jamil Khoury, Director and Writer Stephen Combs, Director Inspired by Jamil Khoury\u2019s short play WASP: White Arab Slovak Pole, Not Quite White: Arabs, Slavs, and the Contours of Contested Whiteness is a thought-provoking documentary that explores the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,8,394,20,842],"tags":[14970,14971,14964,14968,14967,14966,14969,14965,14963],"class_list":["post-31839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","category-videos","tag-ann-hetzel-gunkel","tag-dominic-a-pacyga","tag-jamil-khoury","tag-john-karam","tag-john-t-karam","tag-john-tofik-karam","tag-roxane-assaf","tag-stephen-combs","tag-typecast-releasing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}