Steven Salaita
Biographic Data
| ID | 455656 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steven Salaita |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steven |
| FAMILY NAME | Salaita |
| SIGNATURE | SALAITA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Virginia Tech |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 67 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Free Speech Exception to Palestine
An exploration of how discourses around free speech actually facilitate repression against those expressing pro-Palestine sentiment
Inter/National Aesthetics: Palestinians in Native Poetry
The fourth chapter examines a range of Native poets to see how they invoke Palestine as a theme and symbol. Here, the author treats Palestine as an aesthetic in Native poetry, not simply a site of political, as to highlight thematic connections across a relatively wide range of work rather than identify a sort of sociopolitical phenomena. In this way, the consistent device of openendedness and ambiguity and self-reflection is that, in the hands o…
Boycotting Israel as Native Nationalism
The second chapter offers a broad history of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions, or BDS, movement and theorizes ways that it can be used in the service of Native nationalism. It explores the implications of academic boycott in the context of broader questions about decolonization, emphasizing the geographies of Indigeneity in America. While issues of academic freedom and activist strategy are central to BDS, it is important to keep sight of t…
Why American Indian Studies Should Be Important to Palestine Solidarity
The fifth chapter argues that American Indian and Indigenous Studies should be more central to Palestine solidarity based on the presence of Palestine as an issue of global concern. In particular, the author examines recent debates about academic freedom, faculty governance, donor influence, and the suppression of radical points of view in the context of the colonial logic by which universities are animated.
Ethnic Cleansing as National Uplift
The third chapter compares the colonial narratives of Andrew Jackson and Ze’ev Jabotinsky to illustrate how foundational discourses of settlement traverse time and geography. Both played central roles in horrible acts of ethnic cleansing, Jackson in the Trail of Tears and Jabotinsky in the 1948 nakba (catastrophe), when more than seven hundred thousand Palestinian Arabs were expelled from their homes. They reify the logic of settler colonization …
How Palestine Became Important to American Indian Studies
The first chapter explores how Palestine became a topic of interest to the field of American Indian Studies and provides an overview of how the interchange between Natives and Palestinians functioned in the past and how it operates in the present. In particular, the analysis of Palestine in American Indian studies forces us to continue exploring the cultures and geographies of Indigeneity.
Conclusion: The Game of Our Time
The conclusion of Inter/Nationalism discusses a suite of board games that reproduces settler colonization. Using two games released by the German company Catan, where the gamer conquers and settles an already occupied land, the author suggests that it reinforces a sense of belonging on a native land without the fuss of guilt or self-reflection. Real histories can be subsumed by their own legendary effects on modernity, but their disappearance int…
Inter/Nationalism: Decolonizing Native America and Palestine
Inter/Nationalism: Decolonizing Native America and Palestine
Inter/Nationalism examines mutual forms of decolonization in North America and Palestine. Salaita analyzes the many ways that the issue of Palestine has become important to the fields of American Indian and Indigenous Studies while arguing that American Indian and Indigenous Studies should be more central to scholarship and activism focused on Palestine. The book emphasizes the importance of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions, or BDS, movemen…
Recent Book
Recent Book." Journal of Palestine Studies, 44(2), pp. 63–64 Additional informationNotes on contributorsSteven SalaitaSteven Salaita is an independent scholar
Response to Eric Cheyfitz's “The Force of Exceptionalist Narratives in the Israeli—Palestinian Conflict
NAIS 1:2 FALL 2014 Response to Eric Cheyfitz 147 STEVEN SALAITA Response to Eric Cheyfitz’s “The Force of Exceptionalist Narratives in the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict” I WAS DELIGHTED to read Eric Cheyfitz’s “The Force of Exceptionalist Narratives in the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict” and am excited to offer this brief response. This conversation is one that must necessarily continue. It is appropriate for a variety of reasons that it happens in …
Inter/Nationalism from the Holy Land to the New World: Encountering Palestine in American Indian Studies
NAIS 1:2 FALL 2014 Inter/Nationalism from the Holy Land to the New World 125 STEVEN SALAITA Inter/Nationalism from the Holy Land to the New World: Encountering Palestine in American Indian Studies THIS ESSAY EXPLORES the conditions rendering Palestine, as both symbolic and living space and site of conflict, of interest to the field of American Indian studies (a broad field with degrees of overlap with Indigenous studies, Pacific Island studies, e…
The Palestine Nakba: Decolonising History, Narrating the Subaltern, Reclaiming Memory
Additional informationNotes on contributorsSteven SalaitaSteven Salaita is an associate professor of English at Virginia Tech. His latest book is Israel-s Dead Soul
Born in Jerusalem, Born Palestinian: A Memoir, and Occupation Diaries
Additional informationNotes on contributorsSteven SalaitaSteven Salaita is an associate professor of English at Virginia Tech. His latest book is Israel-s Dead Soul
Concocting Terrorism off the Reservation: Liberal Orientalism in Sherman Alexie's Post-9/11 Fiction
Concocting Terrorism off the ReservationLiberal Orientalism in Sherman Alexie’s Post-9/11 Fiction Steven Salaita (bio) Sherman Alexie is arguably the most visible Native writer today (among those, to be more specific, who participate in or are associated with the category of “Native American literature”). A prolific novelist, poet, screenwriter, essayist, and short story writer, Alexie commands large audiences (and honoraria) wherever he reads or…
Pro-Arab Lobbying
Ethics of Intercultural Approaches to Indigenous Studies: Conjoining Natives and Palestinians in Context
Salaita argues that the project of Indigenous Studies is inherently comparative, citing numerous examples of productive intercultural scholarship, he explores historical, cultural, and politicalrelationships among Native North Americans and Palestinian Arabs to illuminate some of the ways that comparison offers the potential for new directions in both scholarly and activist communities. He contextualizes this analysis with a broader discussion of…
The uncultured wars: Arabs, Muslims, and the poverty of liberal thought : new essays
This is a powerful indictment of dominant American liberal-left discourse. Through 12 essays Steven Salaita returns again and again to his core themes of anti-Arab racism and Islamophobia and the inadequacy of critical thought amongst the 'chattering classes', showing how racism continues to exist in the places where we would least expect it
Arab American Literary Fictions, Cultures, and Politics
N.B. this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title. Stock of this book requires shipment from overseas. It will be delivered to you within 12 weeks. Using literary and social analysis, this book examines a rang
Arab American literary fictions, cultures, and politics
Using a mix of literary and social analysis, this book examines a broad range of modern Arab American literary fiction and illustrates how numerous socio-political phenomena have affected the development of the Arab American novel. Salaita argues that in the United States a variety of fictions about Arab and Islam circulate frequently in both popular and academic cultures. He endeavors in turn to highlight the diversities inscribed in the Arab Am…
Anti-Arab Racism in the USA: Where It Comes From and What It Means For Politics Today
Introduction: The Evolution of White Supremacy 1. The Perilous World of Savages and Barbarians 2. Ethnic Identity and Imperative Patriotism: Arab Americans Before and After 9/11 3. Observations on a New Fifth Column: Anti-Arab Racism in the American University 4. Is Zionism Racism? 5. Why God Hates Me 6. Re-Dressing Abu Ghraib: The Racism of Denial Conclusion: Stories of a Different Kind Notes Index
Anti-Arab Racism in the USA: Where it Comes From and What it Means for Politics Today
Beyond Orientalism and Islamophobia: 9/11, Anti-Arab Racism, and the Mythos of National Pride
Beyond Orientalism and Islamophobia 9/11, Anti-Arab Racism, and the Mythos of National Pride Steven Salaita Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg Since 9/11, Arab Americans have evolved from what Nadine Naber once described as an invisible group in the United States into a highly visible community that either directly or indirectly affects the United States' so-called culture wars, foreign policy, presidential elections,…
Ethnic Identity and Imperative Patriotism: Arab Americans Before and After 9/11
This article examines the effects of 9/11 on the Arab American community with emphasis on how notions of patriotism have altered both American and Arab American life. Analyses of pedagogy, ethnic studies, xenophobia, racism, and stereotype are offered in order to highlight the complexities of the interaction between Americans of Arab origin and other domestic ethnic groups. The author concludes that 9/11 did not actually alter American attitudes …
Demystifying the Quest for Canaan: Observations on Mimesis in the New World and Holy Land
Inter/Nationalism: Decolonizing Native America and Palestine
Inter/Nationalism examines mutual forms of decolonization in North America and Palestine. Salaita analyzes the many ways that the issue of Palestine has become important to the fields of American Indian and Indigenous Studies while arguing that American Indian and Indigenous Studies should be more central to scholarship and activism focused on Palestine. The book emphasizes the importance of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions, or BDS, movemen…
The Palestine Nakba: Decolonising History, Narrating the Subaltern, Reclaiming Memory
Additional informationNotes on contributorsSteven SalaitaSteven Salaita is an associate professor of English at Virginia Tech. His latest book is Israel-s Dead Soul
Beyond Orientalism and Islamophobia: 9/11, Anti-Arab Racism, and the Mythos of National Pride
Beyond Orientalism and Islamophobia 9/11, Anti-Arab Racism, and the Mythos of National Pride Steven Salaita Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg Since 9/11, Arab Americans have evolved from what Nadine Naber once described as an invisible group in the United States into a highly visible community that either directly or indirectly affects the United States' so-called culture wars, foreign policy, presidential elections,…
The Free Speech Exception to Palestine
An exploration of how discourses around free speech actually facilitate repression against those expressing pro-Palestine sentiment
Response to Eric Cheyfitz's “The Force of Exceptionalist Narratives in the Israeli—Palestinian Conflict
NAIS 1:2 FALL 2014 Response to Eric Cheyfitz 147 STEVEN SALAITA Response to Eric Cheyfitz’s “The Force of Exceptionalist Narratives in the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict” I WAS DELIGHTED to read Eric Cheyfitz’s “The Force of Exceptionalist Narratives in the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict” and am excited to offer this brief response. This conversation is one that must necessarily continue. It is appropriate for a variety of reasons that it happens in …
Born in Jerusalem, Born Palestinian: A Memoir, and Occupation Diaries
Additional informationNotes on contributorsSteven SalaitaSteven Salaita is an associate professor of English at Virginia Tech. His latest book is Israel-s Dead Soul
The Kahan Commission Report and A Balcony over the Fakihani: A Tale of Two Fictions
Postindian Conversations
Book Review| March 01 2000 Postindian Conversations Lee, A. Robert, and Vizenor, Gerald. Postindian Conversations. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1999. 200 pp. Steven Salaita Steven Salaita Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Genre (2000) 33 (1): 125–126. https://doi.org/10.1215/00166928-33-1-125 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Linked…
Sand Niggers, Small Shops, and Uncle Sam: Cultural Negotiation in the Fiction of Joseph Geha and Diana Abu-Jaber
THIS ESSAY will examine the emergence of Arab American literature as it relates to the sudden visibility of this community in the political and cultural topography of the United States. 1 Over the past decade, a growing body of scholarship has analyzed the growth and makeup of domestic Arab life, in the process crystallizing the designation Arab American, if not the boundaries surrounding such a broad term. Arab Americans have been active sociall…
Unveiling Traditions: Postcolonial Islam in a Polycentric World
Book Review| March 01 2001 Unveiling Traditions: Postcolonial Islam in a Polycentric World Majid, Anouar. Unveiling Traditions: Postcolonial Islam in a Polycentric World. Durham: Duke UP, 2000. 304 pp. Steven Salaita Steven Salaita Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Genre (2001) 34 (1-2): 164–167. https://doi.org/10.1215/00166928-34-1-2-164 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search…
Demystifying the Quest for Canaan: Observations on Mimesis in the New World and Holy Land
The Kahan Commission Report and A Balcony over the Fakihani: A Tale of Two Fictions
Digging Up the Bones of the Past: Colonial and Indigenous Interplay in Winona LaDuke s Last Standing Woman
In decolonization, there is the need of a complete calling in question of the colonial situation. If we wish to describe it precisely, we might find it in the well-known words: “The last shall be first and the first last.” Decolonization is the putting into practice of this sentence. That is why, if we try to describe it, all decolonization is successful.\n—Frantz Fanon, Wretched of the Earth\nAnishinaabe politician, author, and activist Winona L…
Ethnic Identity and Imperative Patriotism: Arab Americans Before and After 9/11
This article examines the effects of 9/11 on the Arab American community with emphasis on how notions of patriotism have altered both American and Arab American life. Analyses of pedagogy, ethnic studies, xenophobia, racism, and stereotype are offered in order to highlight the complexities of the interaction between Americans of Arab origin and other domestic ethnic groups. The author concludes that 9/11 did not actually alter American attitudes …
Anti-Arab Racism in the USA: Where It Comes From and What It Means For Politics Today
Introduction: The Evolution of White Supremacy 1. The Perilous World of Savages and Barbarians 2. Ethnic Identity and Imperative Patriotism: Arab Americans Before and After 9/11 3. Observations on a New Fifth Column: Anti-Arab Racism in the American University 4. Is Zionism Racism? 5. Why God Hates Me 6. Re-Dressing Abu Ghraib: The Racism of Denial Conclusion: Stories of a Different Kind Notes Index
Anti-Arab Racism in the USA: Where it Comes From and What it Means for Politics Today
Beyond Orientalism and Islamophobia: 9/11, Anti-Arab Racism, and the Mythos of National Pride
Beyond Orientalism and Islamophobia 9/11, Anti-Arab Racism, and the Mythos of National Pride Steven Salaita Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg Since 9/11, Arab Americans have evolved from what Nadine Naber once described as an invisible group in the United States into a highly visible community that either directly or indirectly affects the United States' so-called culture wars, foreign policy, presidential elections,…
Arab American Literary Fictions, Cultures, and Politics
N.B. this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title. Stock of this book requires shipment from overseas. It will be delivered to you within 12 weeks. Using literary and social analysis, this book examines a rang
Arab American literary fictions, cultures, and politics
Using a mix of literary and social analysis, this book examines a broad range of modern Arab American literary fiction and illustrates how numerous socio-political phenomena have affected the development of the Arab American novel. Salaita argues that in the United States a variety of fictions about Arab and Islam circulate frequently in both popular and academic cultures. He endeavors in turn to highlight the diversities inscribed in the Arab Am…
Ethics of Intercultural Approaches to Indigenous Studies: Conjoining Natives and Palestinians in Context
Salaita argues that the project of Indigenous Studies is inherently comparative, citing numerous examples of productive intercultural scholarship, he explores historical, cultural, and politicalrelationships among Native North Americans and Palestinian Arabs to illuminate some of the ways that comparison offers the potential for new directions in both scholarly and activist communities. He contextualizes this analysis with a broader discussion of…
The uncultured wars: Arabs, Muslims, and the poverty of liberal thought : new essays
This is a powerful indictment of dominant American liberal-left discourse. Through 12 essays Steven Salaita returns again and again to his core themes of anti-Arab racism and Islamophobia and the inadequacy of critical thought amongst the 'chattering classes', showing how racism continues to exist in the places where we would least expect it
Concocting Terrorism off the Reservation: Liberal Orientalism in Sherman Alexie's Post-9/11 Fiction
Concocting Terrorism off the ReservationLiberal Orientalism in Sherman Alexie’s Post-9/11 Fiction Steven Salaita (bio) Sherman Alexie is arguably the most visible Native writer today (among those, to be more specific, who participate in or are associated with the category of “Native American literature”). A prolific novelist, poet, screenwriter, essayist, and short story writer, Alexie commands large audiences (and honoraria) wherever he reads or…
Pro-Arab Lobbying
The Palestine Nakba: Decolonising History, Narrating the Subaltern, Reclaiming Memory
Additional informationNotes on contributorsSteven SalaitaSteven Salaita is an associate professor of English at Virginia Tech. His latest book is Israel-s Dead Soul
Born in Jerusalem, Born Palestinian: A Memoir, and Occupation Diaries
Additional informationNotes on contributorsSteven SalaitaSteven Salaita is an associate professor of English at Virginia Tech. His latest book is Israel-s Dead Soul
Response to Eric Cheyfitz's “The Force of Exceptionalist Narratives in the Israeli—Palestinian Conflict
NAIS 1:2 FALL 2014 Response to Eric Cheyfitz 147 STEVEN SALAITA Response to Eric Cheyfitz’s “The Force of Exceptionalist Narratives in the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict” I WAS DELIGHTED to read Eric Cheyfitz’s “The Force of Exceptionalist Narratives in the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict” and am excited to offer this brief response. This conversation is one that must necessarily continue. It is appropriate for a variety of reasons that it happens in …
Inter/Nationalism from the Holy Land to the New World: Encountering Palestine in American Indian Studies
NAIS 1:2 FALL 2014 Inter/Nationalism from the Holy Land to the New World 125 STEVEN SALAITA Inter/Nationalism from the Holy Land to the New World: Encountering Palestine in American Indian Studies THIS ESSAY EXPLORES the conditions rendering Palestine, as both symbolic and living space and site of conflict, of interest to the field of American Indian studies (a broad field with degrees of overlap with Indigenous studies, Pacific Island studies, e…
Recent Book
Recent Book." Journal of Palestine Studies, 44(2), pp. 63–64 Additional informationNotes on contributorsSteven SalaitaSteven Salaita is an independent scholar
Inter/National Aesthetics: Palestinians in Native Poetry
The fourth chapter examines a range of Native poets to see how they invoke Palestine as a theme and symbol. Here, the author treats Palestine as an aesthetic in Native poetry, not simply a site of political, as to highlight thematic connections across a relatively wide range of work rather than identify a sort of sociopolitical phenomena. In this way, the consistent device of openendedness and ambiguity and self-reflection is that, in the hands o…
Boycotting Israel as Native Nationalism
The second chapter offers a broad history of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions, or BDS, movement and theorizes ways that it can be used in the service of Native nationalism. It explores the implications of academic boycott in the context of broader questions about decolonization, emphasizing the geographies of Indigeneity in America. While issues of academic freedom and activist strategy are central to BDS, it is important to keep sight of t…
Why American Indian Studies Should Be Important to Palestine Solidarity
The fifth chapter argues that American Indian and Indigenous Studies should be more central to Palestine solidarity based on the presence of Palestine as an issue of global concern. In particular, the author examines recent debates about academic freedom, faculty governance, donor influence, and the suppression of radical points of view in the context of the colonial logic by which universities are animated.
Ethnic Cleansing as National Uplift
The third chapter compares the colonial narratives of Andrew Jackson and Ze’ev Jabotinsky to illustrate how foundational discourses of settlement traverse time and geography. Both played central roles in horrible acts of ethnic cleansing, Jackson in the Trail of Tears and Jabotinsky in the 1948 nakba (catastrophe), when more than seven hundred thousand Palestinian Arabs were expelled from their homes. They reify the logic of settler colonization …
History (18 works) · Political science (17 works) · Law (13 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Art (10 works) · Politics (10 works) · Ancient history (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Palestine (6 works)