Resisting blackness, embracing rightness: How Muslim Arab Sudanese women negotiate their identity in the diaspora

Fàbos, Anita

doi:10.1080/01419870.2011.592594

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“…As Pierre (2013: 548) acknowledges, while the explicitly racist scholarship of the past that ‘attempted to link levels of civilization to skin colour, and connected North African advanced civilization to the area’s proximity to, and biocultural influence by, Europe’ has largely been discredited, these inflections continue to inform discursive fabulations of Africa. ‘Arabness’, in several North African countries, remains synonymous with racial superiority, dehumanising Blackness (Fábos, 2012).…”

Section: Colonial Histories and The Black Mediterraneanmentioning

confidence: 99%

Young, unauthorised and Black: African unaccompanied minors and becoming an adult in Italy

Walker

Gunaratnam

2021

Journal of Sociology

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This article is based on ethnographic fieldwork in an Italian reception centre for male ‘unaccompanied minors’. Drawing on the concepts of ‘hostipitality’ (Derrida), the Black Mediterranean, and ‘intimate citizenship’ (Plummer), we examine the political ambivalence of hospitality for young African men as they transition to adulthood and how this is experienced through the intersections of age, gender and race. The biographical transition to adulthood thus offers a unique empirical opportunity to examine the extent of hospitality, as the (uninvited) Black child guest crosses the threshold into being an unwanted, potentially deportable, ‘invader’. Drawing from the young men’s images (art and photographs) and narratives, we discuss their experiences of differential anti-Blackness during their migration journeys and how hegemonic notions of masculinity circumscribe the quest for legal citizenship and the meaning of adulthood. While capitulation to gender normativity bolsters claims to citizenship, racism is a continuing and profound threat to ontological security.

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Section: Colonial Histories and The Black Mediterraneanmentioning

confidence: 99%

Young, unauthorised and Black: African unaccompanied minors and becoming an adult in Italy

Walker

Gunaratnam

2021

Journal of Sociology

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“…They are facing resisting conflict, within family or in social neighborhood. However there was no turning back and have to keep struggling to live abroad (Akua-Sakyiwah, 2016;Fabos, 2012;McLaurin-Jones et al, 2020;Sabri et al, 2015). However, within these research findings it can be showed that Indonesian diaspora women perform their abilities to deal with difficulties while making adjustment and accepting life habits differences.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 82%

Understanding Communication and Identity Strategy of Indonesian Diaspora Women as YouTuber

Yusuf

Sudarmanti

2021

JTM

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<em><span>Nowadays the presence of internet provides virtual spaces for diaspora women who are living outside Indonesia. Living within different cultures are challenging and social media platform can be as self-actualization medium to representing identities and expressing their emotional bonding with homeland. There are only several research which have revealed on how Indonesia women diaspora from mixed family especially in maintaining YouTube platforms. The aim of this study is tried to portray how Indonesian diaspora women revealing their national identity within video YouTube content. This research method was descriptive qualitative. Data were collected from ten videos of two Indonesian diasporas YouTuber who have mixed family, living abroad, and have more than 1 (one) million subscribers. We tried to explore from some categories such as video's location, moment or time background, target viewer, and on how delivering the messages within videos. Research finding showed that the video’s contents indicated kind of negotiation construction for showing love and caring between homeland and recent locations, also acceptance with local identities. Elements of Indonesian are attached in their everyday life. In addition, they were still depicted as being related to domestic role and being responsible for taking care of the family.</span></em>

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“…Early Arab geographers wrote of sub-Saharan Africa as only a culturally opaque pool of slave labor (Hunwick, 2005). The idea that slaves had to be whipped for them to work, otherwise they would not, ‘draws upon histories of African enslavement by Arabs, and early Muslim scholars’ characterizations of Black Africans as primitive, unclean and lazy’ (Fábos, 2012: 222). Some famous Black Arab poets from the immediately pre-Islamic and early Islamic period (cited in Luffin 2010), attacked commonly voiced negative views of Blackness.…”

Section: Blackness and Racism In The Arab Regionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Blackness in Arab transnational television comedy: Fresh pushback against entrenched stereotypes

Downing

Gamil²

2020

International Communication Gazette

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We address a hitherto understudied site of ‘racial’ representation, namely comedy discourses in contemporary Arab transnational TV, especially in the enormously popular Saudi show Tash Ma Tash (a 1992–2011 Ramadan special). Arab TV comedy’s ‘racial’ representation melds the globally familiar generic depreciation of phenotypical Blackness with traits and tropes distinctive to Nubian Egyptians, Sudanese, and Gulf Afro-Arabs. Symptomatic readings derived via core elements of critical discourse analysis, and self-reflexive experience, are deployed to interpret the media texts selected. We also explore the pushback voiced by those racialized, especially since the advent of Web–TV and social media. We conclude that the region’s TV comedy professionals do not pursue a consciously anti-Black agenda, but that they should urgently review conventional professional practices that ‘dehumanize’ (Bastian and Haslam) Afro-Arabs.

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Resisting blackness, embracing rightness: How Muslim Arab Sudanese women negotiate their identity in the diaspora

Cited by 11 publications

References 24 publications

Young, unauthorised and Black: African unaccompanied minors and becoming an adult in Italy

Young, unauthorised and Black: African unaccompanied minors and becoming an adult in Italy

Understanding Communication and Identity Strategy of Indonesian Diaspora Women as YouTuber

Blackness in Arab transnational television comedy: Fresh pushback against entrenched stereotypes

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