How Armenian-Americans Became “White”: A Brief History
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Bailout: Exploring Credit Card Debt and the Iranian-American Immigrant Experience
Set amid the financial collapse of 2009, Bailout follows the story of Shalah or “Shay,” an Iranian-American woman living in Philadelphia, who struggles to hide her own entrapment in the most American of traditions — credit card debt — from her family members who all harbor their own untold secrets.
“If One Member is Afflicted with Pain”: Reflections on Ferguson, Race, and Solidarity among Iranians in the U.S.
What does solidarity with Black and Brown people as Iranian people look like? How can we work to identify our own cultural identities as Iranians, our own political histories, traumas and struggles for self-determination as resources to draw upon as we build bridges and alliances with other racialized communities?
Neda Maghbouleh on “The Limits of Whiteness, Iranian-Americans and the Everyday Politics of Race”
Ajam’s first podcast features Dr. Neda Maghbouleh, author of The Limits of Whiteness: Iranian-Americans and the Everyday Politics of Race. Her research examines the production of racial categories and identities through macro-level policy and micro-level interaction, with a special emphasis on Iranians and other “liminal whites” in North America.
A Year in Ajam: Revisiting Our Best Articles of 2013
In 2013, we covered a wide variety of topics ranging from gender and sexuality politics in contemporary Iranian cinema to the attractions of Zionism to Iran’s pre-revolutionary elites, provoking a great deal of controversy along the way. Check out our ten most-viewed articles from 2013.
Music and Race Politics in the Iranian Persian Gulf: Shanbehzadeh and “Bandari”
A guest post by Kamyar Jarahzadeh, a student at UC Berkeley focusing on migration and forced migration in Turkey and the Middle East. Read his earlier post on Iranian pop music.…