GWS and GLAS Professor Nadine Naber Discusses Chicago’s Arab American Store Owners and Their Relationships with Customers in Black Neighborhoods in the Chicago Tribune
The Chicago Tribune quotes Nadine Naber, UIC professor of gender and women's studies and Global Asian studies, in a story on Chicago’s Arab American store owners and their relationships with customers, particularly in black neighborhoods. She says these stores and their owners cannot be separated from the context in which they arrive in the U.S., which includes anti-blackness in Arab countries, often exacerbated by European ideas of white supremacy, the prevalence of U.S. media — criticized for depicting black people as prone to violence — in Arab countries, and the struggle to assimilate into a culture that rewards whiteness. https://bit.ly/2YBMIhx (Subscription required)