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REVIEW ESSAY “Wild Westernization” and Liminal Racialization at the Limits of the Middle East and North America MAR YAM KAS H ANI The Limits of Whiteness: Iranian Americans and the Everyday Politics of Race Neda Maghbouleh Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2017 248 pages. ISBN 9781503603370 (paper) The Limits of Westernization: A Cultural History of America in Turkey Perin E. Gürel New York: Columbia University Press, 2017 288 pages. ISBN 9780231182027 (cloth) The biopolitical governmentality of nation-state projects ranges from managing ethnic and racial difference to instituting processes of modernization, often seen as concomitant with Westernization. The transgressions of everyday life and cultural production that expose the limits of such projects are the concerns of two recent texts that consider the Middle East in relation to the United States from the per- spectives of the Iranian diaspora and Turkish public culture and folklore. From the limits of whiteness to the limits of Westernization, Neda Maghbouleh and Perin E. Gürel’s books demonstrate how figures and concepts are constructed and mobilized across time and space and how attention to the local reveals the disconnects and transgressions of governmental, imperial, and nationalist discourses and regimes. Maghbouleh’s multisited analysis exposes the liminality of
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies – Duke University Press
Published: Nov 1, 2019
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