{"id":54685,"date":"2017-07-30T20:46:47","date_gmt":"2017-07-30T20:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=54685"},"modified":"2017-07-30T20:47:39","modified_gmt":"2017-07-30T20:47:39","slug":"in-passing-arab-american-poetry-and-the-politics-of-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=54685","title":{"rendered":"In Passing: Arab American Poetry and the Politics of Race"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Passing: Arab American Poetry and the Politics of Race<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Ethnic Studies Review<\/a>
\nVolume 28, Issue 2 (2005)<\/a>
\npages 17-36<\/p>\n

Katherine Wardi-Zonna<\/strong>
\nGannon University, Erie, Pennsylvania<\/em><\/p>\n

Anissa Janine Wardi<\/strong>
\nChatham College, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania<\/em><\/p>\n

Racial passing<\/a> has a long history in America<\/a>. In fact, there are manifold reasons for passing, not the least of which is to reap benefits-social, economic and legal-routinely denied to people of color. Passing is conventionally understood to be a volitional act that either situationally or permanently allows members of marginalized groups to assimilate into a privileged culture. While it could be argued that those who choose to pass are, in a sense, race traitors, betraying familial, historical and cultural ties to personhood,1<\/sup> Wald provides another way of reading passing, or “crossing the line,” as a “practice that emerges from subjects’ desires to control the terms of their racial definition, rather than be subject to the definitions of white supremacy” (6). She further contends that racial distinction, itself, “is a basis of racial oppression and exploitation” (6).<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Passing: Arab American Poetry and the Politics of Race Ethnic Studies Review Volume 28, Issue 2 (2005) pages 17-36 Katherine Wardi-Zonna Gannon University, Erie, Pennsylvania Anissa Janine Wardi Chatham College, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Racial passing has a long history in America. In fact, there are manifold reasons for passing, not the least of which is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,1196,8,6462,20],"tags":[27396,27398,27397],"class_list":["post-54685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-usa","tag-anissa-janine-wardi","tag-ethnic-studies-review","tag-katherine-wardi-zonna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54685","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=54685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54686,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54685\/revisions\/54686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}