Iranian Identity, American Experience

Philosophical Reflections on Race, Rights, Capabilities, and Oppression

AvRoksana Alavi

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2023-03-27
Mått:151 x 228 x 13 mm
Vikt:254 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Philosophy of Race
Antal sidor:166
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781498575119

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Roksana Alavi is associate (term) professor of interdisciplinary studies at the University of Oklahoma College of Professional and Continuing Studies and affiliate faculty member in the philosophy department and Iranian studies and women and gender studies programs.

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In this brief but insightful and clearly organized discussion, Iranian American Alavi reviews and evaluates philosophical literature to develop her own theory of oppression, which she applies to analyzing the identities and social conditions of Iranian émigrés and their descendants in the US. Alavi focuses on experiences, such as stereotyping, discrimination, and self-hate, that coerce assimilation or isolation and inhibit individuals from developing capabilities on the basis of their group membership. She argues that a distinction must be drawn between thriving economically, as Iranian Americans are thought to do, and being free of the effects of racism and discrimination. Indeed, the economic success of Iranian immigrants may camouflage the ways in which the population as a whole is oppressed by experiences of exploitation, marginalization, powerlessness, cultural imperialism, and violence. Alavi also notes the significance of class and gender differences and discusses how skin color, language ability, education, job skills, and geographical location are factors that can systematically and structurally limit people from developing capabilities and accessing the benefits of equality. Although Alavi’s philosophical analysis only minimally examines socioeconomic data and cultural specifics, she makes a good case for understanding, and also potentially eliminating, the effects of oppression. Recommended. General readers through faculty; professionals.

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ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter One: My Life in the TriangleChapter Two: What Are You?: A Discussion on Race, Ethnicity, and (Iranian) IdentityChapter Three: Voluntary OppressionChapter Four: Bridging the Gap Between Rights and CapabilitiesChapter Five: Harms of OppressionChapter Six: Responding to OppressionBibliographyIndexAbout the Author