Alex Lubin
Biographic Data
| ID | 563734 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alex Lubin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alex |
| FAMILY NAME | Lubin |
| SIGNATURE | LUBIN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Cambridge Companion to American Literature and Empire
The story of American literature and empire goes beyond the broad historical periodization of empire to reimagine that history. The central terms American and literature have always been tied up in US empire as well as other empires in the Americas. The word 'America,' itself the product of inter-imperial intellectual rivalry, claims the name of an entire hemisphere for one country therein. To understand the full history of American literature an…
Solidarity and the Palestinian Cause
Zahi Zalloua could not have known that their book, Solidarity and the Palestine Cause, would be read as a field guide to the post-October 7, 2023, war on Gaza. Yet, as it mines the past 75 years of mythmaking about and dehumanization of Palestinians, it reads as an uncanny analysis of the present and future. This is because Zalloua’s rigorous and intelligent analysis of Palestinian disposability offers an analysis of the limits of liberal terms l…
The Substance of Solidarity
Historians of the US Third World Left often overlook the contributions of Iranian students in the United States to US-based social movements against imperialism. One possible reason for the absence of Iranian students in scholarship on the US Third World Left is the predominance of US racial formations in shaping the discipline of ethnic studies. In privileging US-based racial formations over more internationalist and “Third Worldist” constructio…
From Home Rule to Homeland
A brief essay that is part of a special American Quarterly forum on the 20th anniversary of the U.S. War on Terror
Professor Amy Kaplan
The American studies community was left reeling after learning of Amy Kaplan’s passing a year ago in the summer of 2020.The essays in this roundtable testify not only to Kaplan’s enormous contributions to American studies scholarship, but also to her inspirational mentorship and friendship to scholars and students across the world. We are grateful to each of our contributors, Rafael Walker, Alex Lubin, Mark Storey, and Poulomi Saha, for sharing t…
American Studies Encounters the Middle East
Black Panther Palestine
Throughout the 1970s Arab (Mizrahi) Jews built a social movement within Israel to confront their racial exclusion from the promises of Israeli citizenship. The movement crystalized in the formation of the Israeli Black Panther Party, a group that formed solidarity with the U.S. Black Panther Party as well as with the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). In this essay I examine the history of the Israeli Black Panthers and identify the global …
A Shadow over Palestine
Journal Article A Shadow over Palestine: The Imperial Life of Race in America Get access By Keith P. Feldman. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015. xii, 314 pp. $24.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 103, Issue 1, June 2016, Pages 261–262, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaw138 Published: 01 June 2016
American Studies, the Middle East, and the Question of Palestine
This essay examines the intellectual history of American studies programs and departments in the Middle East, especially the relationship of these programs to US State Department efforts at cultural diplomacy or "soft power" after the Cold War. Through this examination, the essay theorizes the relationship of transnational American studies scholarship in the Middle East to the internationalization of the field. In their efforts to understand the …
Between the Secular and the Sectarian
This article explores the combined spiritual and political transformations Malcolm X's thought underwent during his two tours of the Middle East and North Africa in 1964. Drawing on personal communications with figures who met with Malcolm X in the region, I uncover the religious and political influences on Malcolm X while he was there. I pay special attention to Malcolm X's two visits to Beirut, where I argue he encountered a particular form of …
Reading America from the Peripheries
Reading America from the Peripheries Alex Lubin (bio) The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South. By Vijay Prashad. New York: Verso, 2013. 300 pages. $26.95 (cloth). $18.95 (paper). The Security Archipelago: Human-Security States, Sexuality Politics, and the End of Neoliberalism. By Paul Amar. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2013. 328 pp. $94.95 (cloth). $25.95 (paper). Time in the Shadows: Confinement in Counterinsurgencies. B…
Geographies of Liberation
In this absorbing transnational history, Alex Lubin reveals the vital connections between African American political thought and the people and nations of the Middle East. Spanning the 1850s through the present, and set against a backdrop of major political and cultural shifts around the world, the book demonstrates how international geopolitics, including the ascendance of liberal internationalism, established the conditions within which blacks …
Fear of an Arab Planet”
Lubin’s analysis focuses on the identities and actions of communities that translate their politics and poetics into other discursive forms, seeking liberation. “Seriously” reading global hip-hop as a transnational linkage of the voices of the dispossessed and oppressed, Lubin argues that reading and understanding the new geography of liberation that such discursive communities create is also a way of recognizing how such spaces and forms of comm…
The Israel/Palestine Field School
In May 2011, the Anthropology Department and the Department of American Studies at the University of New Mexico offered a class entitled “Technologies of Settler-Colonialism in Israel-Palestine.” This field school was designed as a decolonizing project for American students (an extremely diverse group representative of New Mexico’s particular diverse population that included Hispanic, Native American, Arab and Muslim-American, Jewish-American, an…
Locating Palestine In Pre-1948
A t the 1955 A sian -A frican conference held in B andung , I ndonesia , Pan-Africanists and anticolonial leaders from Asia and North Africa met to discuss the politics of nonalignment. The conference addressed many themes, including the possibilities for Afro-Asian solidarity, the complexities of anticolonial struggle within Cold War hegemony, and the enduring colonial occupations of North Africa, parts of Southeast Asia, and Palestine. These ke…
We are all Israelis
Drawing on the work of Benedict Anderson and Edward Said, this essay analyzes the ubiquity of comparisons in American Orientalist culture. As the United States gained territory through settler colonial expansion, it often rendered its acquisition meaningful through comparisons to Levantine culture. Hence, in his 1848 account of the U.S. naval expedition of the Red Sea and Jordan, William Lynch compared Arabs to Indians and the Holy Land to the U.…
Romance and Rights
Locating Palestine in Pre-1948 Black Internationalism
This essay locates Palestine in the African-American global imaginary from 1850–1948. During this period more than a dozen African Americans published travel accounts detailing their exploration of Palestine. The travel narratives reveal that Palestine was an ambivalent geography for African Americans; it was rendered through what Edward Said called orientalism while also identified as an important scene of emancipation and exodus. Moreover, duri…
No There There
Book Review| September 01 2005 No There There: Race, Class, and Political Community in Oakland No There There: Race, Class, and Political Community in Oakland Chris Rhomberg Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004 xiii + 315 pp.,$39.95 (cloth) Alex Lubin Alex Lubin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2005) 2 (3): 138–140. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-2-3-138 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissi…
Foreign Policy and Civil Rights
Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy. By Mary L. Dudziak. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. 352 pages. $39.50 (cloth). $18.95 (paper). IN Cold War Civil Rights, MARY L. DUDZIAK PLACES THE STUDY OF THE POST-World War II Civil Rights Movement in the context of United States foreign relations. In doing so, Dudziak expands the scope of civil rights history and offers new insight into why the federal government sa…
We are all Israelis
Drawing on the work of Benedict Anderson and Edward Said, this essay analyzes the ubiquity of comparisons in American Orientalist culture. As the United States gained territory through settler colonial expansion, it often rendered its acquisition meaningful through comparisons to Levantine culture. Hence, in his 1848 account of the U.S. naval expedition of the Red Sea and Jordan, William Lynch compared Arabs to Indians and the Holy Land to the U.…
American Studies, the Middle East, and the Question of Palestine
This essay examines the intellectual history of American studies programs and departments in the Middle East, especially the relationship of these programs to US State Department efforts at cultural diplomacy or "soft power" after the Cold War. Through this examination, the essay theorizes the relationship of transnational American studies scholarship in the Middle East to the internationalization of the field. In their efforts to understand the …
Black Panther Palestine
Throughout the 1970s Arab (Mizrahi) Jews built a social movement within Israel to confront their racial exclusion from the promises of Israeli citizenship. The movement crystalized in the formation of the Israeli Black Panther Party, a group that formed solidarity with the U.S. Black Panther Party as well as with the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). In this essay I examine the history of the Israeli Black Panthers and identify the global …
Locating Palestine in Pre-1948 Black Internationalism
This essay locates Palestine in the African-American global imaginary from 1850–1948. During this period more than a dozen African Americans published travel accounts detailing their exploration of Palestine. The travel narratives reveal that Palestine was an ambivalent geography for African Americans; it was rendered through what Edward Said called orientalism while also identified as an important scene of emancipation and exodus. Moreover, duri…
Between the Secular and the Sectarian
This article explores the combined spiritual and political transformations Malcolm X's thought underwent during his two tours of the Middle East and North Africa in 1964. Drawing on personal communications with figures who met with Malcolm X in the region, I uncover the religious and political influences on Malcolm X while he was there. I pay special attention to Malcolm X's two visits to Beirut, where I argue he encountered a particular form of …
Fear of an Arab Planet”
Lubin’s analysis focuses on the identities and actions of communities that translate their politics and poetics into other discursive forms, seeking liberation. “Seriously” reading global hip-hop as a transnational linkage of the voices of the dispossessed and oppressed, Lubin argues that reading and understanding the new geography of liberation that such discursive communities create is also a way of recognizing how such spaces and forms of comm…
Foreign Policy and Civil Rights
Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy. By Mary L. Dudziak. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. 352 pages. $39.50 (cloth). $18.95 (paper). IN Cold War Civil Rights, MARY L. DUDZIAK PLACES THE STUDY OF THE POST-World War II Civil Rights Movement in the context of United States foreign relations. In doing so, Dudziak expands the scope of civil rights history and offers new insight into why the federal government sa…
No There There
Book Review| September 01 2005 No There There: Race, Class, and Political Community in Oakland No There There: Race, Class, and Political Community in Oakland Chris Rhomberg Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004 xiii + 315 pp.,$39.95 (cloth) Alex Lubin Alex Lubin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2005) 2 (3): 138–140. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-2-3-138 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissi…
Romance and Rights
Locating Palestine in Pre-1948 Black Internationalism
This essay locates Palestine in the African-American global imaginary from 1850–1948. During this period more than a dozen African Americans published travel accounts detailing their exploration of Palestine. The travel narratives reveal that Palestine was an ambivalent geography for African Americans; it was rendered through what Edward Said called orientalism while also identified as an important scene of emancipation and exodus. Moreover, duri…
We are all Israelis
Drawing on the work of Benedict Anderson and Edward Said, this essay analyzes the ubiquity of comparisons in American Orientalist culture. As the United States gained territory through settler colonial expansion, it often rendered its acquisition meaningful through comparisons to Levantine culture. Hence, in his 1848 account of the U.S. naval expedition of the Red Sea and Jordan, William Lynch compared Arabs to Indians and the Holy Land to the U.…
Locating Palestine In Pre-1948
A t the 1955 A sian -A frican conference held in B andung , I ndonesia , Pan-Africanists and anticolonial leaders from Asia and North Africa met to discuss the politics of nonalignment. The conference addressed many themes, including the possibilities for Afro-Asian solidarity, the complexities of anticolonial struggle within Cold War hegemony, and the enduring colonial occupations of North Africa, parts of Southeast Asia, and Palestine. These ke…
Fear of an Arab Planet”
Lubin’s analysis focuses on the identities and actions of communities that translate their politics and poetics into other discursive forms, seeking liberation. “Seriously” reading global hip-hop as a transnational linkage of the voices of the dispossessed and oppressed, Lubin argues that reading and understanding the new geography of liberation that such discursive communities create is also a way of recognizing how such spaces and forms of comm…
The Israel/Palestine Field School
In May 2011, the Anthropology Department and the Department of American Studies at the University of New Mexico offered a class entitled “Technologies of Settler-Colonialism in Israel-Palestine.” This field school was designed as a decolonizing project for American students (an extremely diverse group representative of New Mexico’s particular diverse population that included Hispanic, Native American, Arab and Muslim-American, Jewish-American, an…
Geographies of Liberation
In this absorbing transnational history, Alex Lubin reveals the vital connections between African American political thought and the people and nations of the Middle East. Spanning the 1850s through the present, and set against a backdrop of major political and cultural shifts around the world, the book demonstrates how international geopolitics, including the ascendance of liberal internationalism, established the conditions within which blacks …
Between the Secular and the Sectarian
This article explores the combined spiritual and political transformations Malcolm X's thought underwent during his two tours of the Middle East and North Africa in 1964. Drawing on personal communications with figures who met with Malcolm X in the region, I uncover the religious and political influences on Malcolm X while he was there. I pay special attention to Malcolm X's two visits to Beirut, where I argue he encountered a particular form of …
Reading America from the Peripheries
Reading America from the Peripheries Alex Lubin (bio) The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South. By Vijay Prashad. New York: Verso, 2013. 300 pages. $26.95 (cloth). $18.95 (paper). The Security Archipelago: Human-Security States, Sexuality Politics, and the End of Neoliberalism. By Paul Amar. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2013. 328 pp. $94.95 (cloth). $25.95 (paper). Time in the Shadows: Confinement in Counterinsurgencies. B…
American Studies Encounters the Middle East
Black Panther Palestine
Throughout the 1970s Arab (Mizrahi) Jews built a social movement within Israel to confront their racial exclusion from the promises of Israeli citizenship. The movement crystalized in the formation of the Israeli Black Panther Party, a group that formed solidarity with the U.S. Black Panther Party as well as with the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). In this essay I examine the history of the Israeli Black Panthers and identify the global …
A Shadow over Palestine
Journal Article A Shadow over Palestine: The Imperial Life of Race in America Get access By Keith P. Feldman. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015. xii, 314 pp. $24.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 103, Issue 1, June 2016, Pages 261–262, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaw138 Published: 01 June 2016
American Studies, the Middle East, and the Question of Palestine
This essay examines the intellectual history of American studies programs and departments in the Middle East, especially the relationship of these programs to US State Department efforts at cultural diplomacy or "soft power" after the Cold War. Through this examination, the essay theorizes the relationship of transnational American studies scholarship in the Middle East to the internationalization of the field. In their efforts to understand the …
Professor Amy Kaplan
The American studies community was left reeling after learning of Amy Kaplan’s passing a year ago in the summer of 2020.The essays in this roundtable testify not only to Kaplan’s enormous contributions to American studies scholarship, but also to her inspirational mentorship and friendship to scholars and students across the world. We are grateful to each of our contributors, Rafael Walker, Alex Lubin, Mark Storey, and Poulomi Saha, for sharing t…
From Home Rule to Homeland
A brief essay that is part of a special American Quarterly forum on the 20th anniversary of the U.S. War on Terror
The Substance of Solidarity
Historians of the US Third World Left often overlook the contributions of Iranian students in the United States to US-based social movements against imperialism. One possible reason for the absence of Iranian students in scholarship on the US Third World Left is the predominance of US racial formations in shaping the discipline of ethnic studies. In privileging US-based racial formations over more internationalist and “Third Worldist” constructio…
Solidarity and the Palestinian Cause
Zahi Zalloua could not have known that their book, Solidarity and the Palestine Cause, would be read as a field guide to the post-October 7, 2023, war on Gaza. Yet, as it mines the past 75 years of mythmaking about and dehumanization of Palestinians, it reads as an uncanny analysis of the present and future. This is because Zalloua’s rigorous and intelligent analysis of Palestinian disposability offers an analysis of the limits of liberal terms l…
The Cambridge Companion to American Literature and Empire
The story of American literature and empire goes beyond the broad historical periodization of empire to reimagine that history. The central terms American and literature have always been tied up in US empire as well as other empires in the Americas. The word 'America,' itself the product of inter-imperial intellectual rivalry, claims the name of an entire hemisphere for one country therein. To understand the full history of American literature an…
Political science (15 works) · Law (14 works) · Politics (13 works) · History (12 works) · Law (12 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Race, History, and American Society (10 works) · Ancient history (7 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · History (7 works)