Iranian Identity American Experience

Author : Roksana Alavi
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781498575102

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Iranian Identity, American Experience by Roksana Alavi Pdf

Iranian Identity, American Experience: Philosophical Reflections on Race, Rights, Capabilities and Oppression is a multidisciplinary study of oppression using the Iranian American community as its case study. In current studies of oppression, there is little philosophical analysis or a theoretical framework to think about race from the perspective of an immigrant community in the United States that appears to be educated and affluent. Iranian Identity, American Experience fills this gap. Alavi discusses a theory of oppression that addresses not only the external oppression inflicted on people of color but also the everyday actions that leave them in oppressive situations. The book ends with suggestions for addressing oppression both individually and as a collective and for fighting to minimize its harms.

Author : Tara Wilcox-Ghanoonparvar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015068807109

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Hyphenated Identities by Tara Wilcox-Ghanoonparvar Pdf

Author : M. Blaim,Amnon Sella
Publisher : Springer
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137473318

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Constructing Identity in Iranian-American Self-Narrative by M. Blaim,Amnon Sella Pdf

Shaped by the experiences of the Iranian Revolution, Iranian-American autobiographers use this chaotic past to tell their current stories in the United States. Wagenknecht analyzes a wide range of such writing and draws new conclusions about migration, exile, and life between different and often clashing cultures.

Author : Ziba Shirazi,Kamran Afary
Publisher : Hamilton Books
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780761871712

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Iranian Diaspora Identities by Ziba Shirazi,Kamran Afary Pdf

Iranian Diaspora Identities: Stories and Songs combines oral history, storytelling, theories of communication, and performance studies into a unique study of an immigrant community. This book is the result of collaborative work between two Iranian-American immigrants, one a musician and artist and the other a professor. Using ethnographic, dramatistic, and oral history approaches, Ziba Shirazi gathered these stories of diaspora journeys of Iranians living in California and Toronto in the aftermath of the Islamic Revolution of 1979. The editors transcribed these stories and developed them into short performance pieces that include lyrics and songs and were performed in the United States and Canada to thousands of people in theater venues and libraries. These stories constitute a unique archive of the history of contemporary Iranian diaspora experiences. They are autobiographic vignettes that have helped constitute an artistic vision of Iranian exiles’ own sense of community and their migratory experiences that inform the transformations they experienced in family, gender, and spiritual beliefs. In addition to providing an archive of experiences, the book uses social drama and storytelling to advocate for a new methodology for documenting Iranian diaspora accounts. It constitutes a new contribution to the existing literature on Iranian diaspora and furthers an exciting contribution to scholarship in qualitative research in communication studies.

Author : M. Blaim,Amnon Sella
Publisher : Springer
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137473318

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Constructing Identity in Iranian-American Self-Narrative by M. Blaim,Amnon Sella Pdf

Shaped by the experiences of the Iranian Revolution, Iranian-American autobiographers use this chaotic past to tell their current stories in the United States. Wagenknecht analyzes a wide range of such writing and draws new conclusions about migration, exile, and life between different and often clashing cultures.

Author : Katherine Whitney,Leila Emery
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-16
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781477320365

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My Shadow Is My Skin by Katherine Whitney,Leila Emery Pdf

The Iranian revolution of 1979 launched a vast, global diaspora, with many Iranians establishing new lives in the United States. In the four decades since, the diaspora has expanded to include not only those who emigrated immediately after the revolution but also their American-born children, more recent immigrants, and people who married into Iranian families, all of whom carry their own stories of trauma, triumph, adversity, and belonging that reflect varied and nuanced perspectives on what it means to be Iranian or Iranian American. The essays in My Shadow Is My Skin are these stories. This collection brings together thirty-two authors, both established and emerging, whose writing captures the diversity of Iranian diasporic experiences. Reflecting on the Iranian American experience over the past forty years and shedding new light on themes of identity, duality, and alienation in twenty-first-century America, the authors present personal narratives of immigration, sexuality, marginalization, marriage, and religion that offer an antidote to the news media’s often superficial portrayals of Iran and the people who have a connection to it. My Shadow Is My Skin illuminates a community that rarely gets to tell its own story.

Author : Maria Antònia Oliver-Rotger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317818205

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Identity, Diaspora and Return in American Literature by Maria Antònia Oliver-Rotger Pdf

This volume combines literary analysis and theoretical approaches to mobility, diasporic identities and the construction of space to explore the different ways in which the notion of return shapes contemporary ethnic writing such as fiction, ethnography, memoir, and film. Through a wide variety of ethnic experiences ranging from the Transatlantic, Asian American, Latino/a and Caribbean alongside their corresponding forms of displacement - political exile, war trauma, and economic migration - the essays in this collection connect the intimate experience of the returning subject to multiple locations, historical experiences, inter-subjective relations, and cultural interactions. They challenge the idea of the narrative of return as a journey back to the untouched roots and home that the ethnic subject left behind. Their diacritical approach combines, on the one hand, a sensitivity to the context and structural elements of modern diaspora; and on the other, an analysis of the individual psychological processes inherent to the experience of displacement and return such as nostalgia, memory and belonging. In the narratives of return analyzed in this volume, space and identity are never static or easily definable; rather, they are in-process and subject to change as they are always entangled in the historical and inter-subjective relations ensuing from displacement and mobility. This book will interest students and scholars who wish to further explore the role of American literature within current debates on globalization, migration, and ethnicity.

Author : Barry M. Rubin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Iran
ISBN : OCLC:1036761930

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Paved with Good Intentions by Barry M. Rubin Pdf

Author : A. Amanat,F. Vejdani
Publisher : Springer
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137013408

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Iran Facing Others by A. Amanat,F. Vejdani Pdf

Iran's long history and complex cultural legacy have generated animated debates about a homogenous Iranian identity in the face of ethnic, linguistic and communal diversity. The volume examines the fluid boundaries of pre-modern identity in history and literature as well as the shaping of Iranian national identity in the 20th century.

Author : Carmen P. Thompson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-15
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 9781666923223

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The Making of American Whiteness by Carmen P. Thompson Pdf

The Making of American Whiteness shows that White supremacy was the guiding principle in the settlement of Virginia, the first colony that made up the United States of America, and for the organization of its civil society.

Author : Farideh Goldin
Publisher : Athabasca University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781771991377

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Leaving Iran by Farideh Goldin Pdf

In 1975, at the age of twenty-three, Farideh Goldin left Iran in search of her imagined America. She sought an escape from the suffocation she felt under the cultural rules of her country and the future her family had envisioned for her. While she settled uneasily into American life, the political unrest in Iran intensified and in February of 1979, Farideh’s family was forced to flee Iran on the last El-Al flights to Tel Aviv. They arrived in Israel as refugees, having left everything behind including the only home Farideh’s father had ever known. Baba, as Farideh called her father, was a well-respected son of the chief rabbi and dayan of the Jews of Shiraz. During his last visit to the United States in 2006, he handed Farideh his memoir that chronicled the years of his life after exile: the confiscation of his passport while he attempted to return to Iran for his belongings, the resulting years of loneliness as he struggled against a hostile bureaucracy to return to his wife and family in Israel, and the eventual loss of the poultry farm that had supported his family. Farideh translated her father’s memoir along with other documents she found in a briefcase after his death. Leaving Iran knits together her father’s story of dislocation and loss with her own experience as an Iranian Jew in a newly adopted home. As an intimate portrait of displacement and the construction of identity, as a story of family loyalty and cultural memory, Leaving Iran is an important addition to a growing body of Iranian–American narratives.

Author : Sebastian Günther,Nevin Reda,Mohammed Rustom,Liyakat Takim,Ingrid Hehmeyer,Walid Saleh,Omid Safi,Noga Hartmann,Y. Tzvi Langermann,K. Luisa Gandolfo,Alexandra Jerome,Sajjad H. Rizvi,Devin J. Stewart,Houchang Hassan-Yari,Mumina Kowalski,Daniel Martin Varisco,Isa Blumi,Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad and Alejandro J. Beutel,Ali Altaf Mian,Richard Phillips,Sameen Ahmed Khan
Publisher : International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT)
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008-11-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 25:3 by Sebastian Günther,Nevin Reda,Mohammed Rustom,Liyakat Takim,Ingrid Hehmeyer,Walid Saleh,Omid Safi,Noga Hartmann,Y. Tzvi Langermann,K. Luisa Gandolfo,Alexandra Jerome,Sajjad H. Rizvi,Devin J. Stewart,Houchang Hassan-Yari,Mumina Kowalski,Daniel Martin Varisco,Isa Blumi,Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad and Alejandro J. Beutel,Ali Altaf Mian,Richard Phillips,Sameen Ahmed Khan Pdf

The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences (AJISS) is a double blind peer-reviewed and interdisciplinary journal that publishes a wide variety of scholarly research on all facets of Islam and the Muslim world: anthropology, economics, history, philosophy and meta-physics, politics, psychology, religious law, and traditional Islam. Submissions are subject to a blind peer review process.

Author : Azadeh Moaveni
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2007-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781586485498

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Lipstick Jihad by Azadeh Moaveni Pdf

As far back as she can remember, Azadeh Moaveni has felt at odds with her tangled identity as an Iranian-American. In suburban America, Azadeh lived in two worlds. At home, she was the daughter of the Iranian exile community, serving tea, clinging to tradition, and dreaming of Tehran. Outside, she was a California girl who practiced yoga and listened to Madonna. For years, she ignored the tense standoff between her two cultures. But college magnified the clash between Iran and America, and after graduating, she moved to Iran as a journalist. This is the story of her search for identity, between two cultures cleaved apart by a violent history. It is also the story of Iran, a restive land lost in the twilight of its revolution. Moaveni's homecoming falls in the heady days of the country's reform movement, when young people demonstrated in the streets and shouted for the Islamic regime to end. In these tumultuous times, she struggles to build a life in a dark country, wholly unlike the luminous, saffron and turquoise-tinted Iran of her imagination. As she leads us through the drug-soaked, underground parties of Tehran, into the hedonistic lives of young people desperate for change, Moaveni paints a rare portrait of Iran's rebellious next generation. The landscape of her Tehran -- ski slopes, fashion shows, malls and cafes -- is populated by a cast of young people whose exuberance and despair brings the modern reality of Iran to vivid life.

Author : Mohsen Mostafavi Mobasher
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780292742826

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Iranians in Texas by Mohsen Mostafavi Mobasher Pdf

Thousands of Iranians fled their homeland when the 1978–1979 revolution ended the fifty-year reign of the Pahlavi Dynasty. Some fled to Europe and Canada, while others settled in the United States, where anti-Iranian sentiment flared as the hostage crisis unfolded. For those who chose America, Texas became the fourth-largest settlement area, ultimately proving to be a place of paradox for any Middle Easterner in exile. Iranians in Texas culls data, interviews, and participant observations in Iranian communities in Houston, Dallas, and Austin to reveal the difficult, private world of cultural pride, religious experience, marginality, culture clashes, and other aspects of the lives of these immigrants. Examining the political nature of immigration and how the originating and receiving countries shape the prospects of integration, Mohsen Mobasher incorporates his own experience as a Texas scholar born in Iran. Tracing current anti-Muslim sentiment to the Iranian hostage crisis, two decades before 9/11, he observes a radically negative shift in American public opinion that forced thousands of Iranians in the United States to suddenly be subjected to stigmatization and viewed as enemies. The book also sheds light on the transformation of the Iranian family in exile and some of the major challenges that second-generation Iranians face in their interactions with their parents. Bringing to life a unique population in the context of global politics, Iranians in Texas overturns stereotypes while echoing diverse voices.

Author : Devonya N. Havis
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781498530156

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Creating a Black Vernacular Philosophy by Devonya N. Havis Pdf

This book explores how vernacular practices created within Black American diasporic cultures via narratives, the blues, jazz, work songs, and other expressive forms, can be understood as philosophy in their own right.