Category: Identity & Culture
-
For decades, Italian American identity in popular culture has been defined by a narrow set of stereotypes: mobsters, pasta, loud… Read more
-
In 1924, the United States Congress passed the Immigration Act, also known as the Johnson-Reed Act. The law established strict… Read more
-
Being queer and Arab American means navigating intersecting marginalizations that few people understand. You’re too queer for your Arab community… Read more
-
Second-generation Arab Americans—those born in the U.S. to immigrant parents—occupy a unique space: too American for their parents’ homeland, too… Read more
-
Arab American women navigate a particular intersection: stereotyped as oppressed by their own culture while discriminated against by mainstream American… Read more
-
Being Palestinian in America means carrying a homeland that doesn’t appear on most maps, defending your right to exist to… Read more
-
If there’s one thing Arab Americans are tired of hearing, it’s that they’re all the same. Twenty-two countries, hundreds of… Read more
-
When most Americans think “Arab American,” they picture a monolithic image shaped by decades of media portrayals. But Arab American… Read more
-
Modern debates about refugees and asylum often ignore America’s own history of desperate migration. The Irish who fled the Great… Read more
-
The myth of universal white privilege has always been more complicated than modern discourse suggests. For Irish immigrants arriving in… Read more
