Umayyah Cable
Biographic Data
| ID | 781410 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Umayyah Cable |
| GIVEN NAMES | Umayyah |
| FAMILY NAME | Cable |
| SIGNATURE | CABLE U |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northwestern University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Coming Out for Community, Coming Out for the Cause
This article focuses on the life experience and political activism of Palestinian American lesbian activist Huda Jadallah as a representative example of how lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT/queer) Arab Americans came out to both queer communities and Arab American communities in the 1980s and 1990s. The author argues that this dual outness was utilized as a strategy through which to accomplish three interrelated aims: to build a quee…
Compulsory Zionism and Palestinian Existence
This essay offers a genealogy of the phrase “compulsory Zionism” in order to illuminate its vexed and contradictory intellectual foundations, the ethical and political stakes of the discourse surrounding the phrase, and its accompanying racial project. Scholars of late have taken up the use of this phrase to signal how “common-sense” knowledge about Palestine and Israel is naturalized in ways that privilege Israel and subjugate Palestinian existe…
An Uprising at The Perfect Moment
This article examines two overlapping controversies at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, Massachusetts, in the early 1990s over the attempted censorship of both Robert Mapplethorpe's show The Perfect Moment and Elia Sulieman's Palestinian film and video art exhibition Uprising. By analyzing the print news discourse on these controversies, namely, regarding the representations of children in The Perfect Moment and in two of the Uprising…
The Rise of the Arab American Left
New Wave Arab American Studies
New Wave Arab American Studies: Ethnic Studies and the Critical Turn Umayyah Cable (bio) Arab America: Gender, Cultural Politics, and Activism. By Nadine Naber. New York: New York University Press, 2012. 320 pages. $74.00 (cloth). $24.00 (paper). Arab and Arab American Feminisms: Gender, Violence, and Belonging. Edited by Rabab Abdulhadi, Evelyn Alsultany, and Nadine Naber. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2010. 408 pages. $45.00 (cloth).…
Compulsory Zionism and Palestinian Existence
This essay offers a genealogy of the phrase “compulsory Zionism” in order to illuminate its vexed and contradictory intellectual foundations, the ethical and political stakes of the discourse surrounding the phrase, and its accompanying racial project. Scholars of late have taken up the use of this phrase to signal how “common-sense” knowledge about Palestine and Israel is naturalized in ways that privilege Israel and subjugate Palestinian existe…
New Wave Arab American Studies
New Wave Arab American Studies: Ethnic Studies and the Critical Turn Umayyah Cable (bio) Arab America: Gender, Cultural Politics, and Activism. By Nadine Naber. New York: New York University Press, 2012. 320 pages. $74.00 (cloth). $24.00 (paper). Arab and Arab American Feminisms: Gender, Violence, and Belonging. Edited by Rabab Abdulhadi, Evelyn Alsultany, and Nadine Naber. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2010. 408 pages. $45.00 (cloth).…
New Wave Arab American Studies
New Wave Arab American Studies: Ethnic Studies and the Critical Turn Umayyah Cable (bio) Arab America: Gender, Cultural Politics, and Activism. By Nadine Naber. New York: New York University Press, 2012. 320 pages. $74.00 (cloth). $24.00 (paper). Arab and Arab American Feminisms: Gender, Violence, and Belonging. Edited by Rabab Abdulhadi, Evelyn Alsultany, and Nadine Naber. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2010. 408 pages. $45.00 (cloth).…
The Rise of the Arab American Left
An Uprising at The Perfect Moment
This article examines two overlapping controversies at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, Massachusetts, in the early 1990s over the attempted censorship of both Robert Mapplethorpe's show The Perfect Moment and Elia Sulieman's Palestinian film and video art exhibition Uprising. By analyzing the print news discourse on these controversies, namely, regarding the representations of children in The Perfect Moment and in two of the Uprising…
Compulsory Zionism and Palestinian Existence
This essay offers a genealogy of the phrase “compulsory Zionism” in order to illuminate its vexed and contradictory intellectual foundations, the ethical and political stakes of the discourse surrounding the phrase, and its accompanying racial project. Scholars of late have taken up the use of this phrase to signal how “common-sense” knowledge about Palestine and Israel is naturalized in ways that privilege Israel and subjugate Palestinian existe…
Coming Out for Community, Coming Out for the Cause
This article focuses on the life experience and political activism of Palestinian American lesbian activist Huda Jadallah as a representative example of how lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT/queer) Arab Americans came out to both queer communities and Arab American communities in the 1980s and 1990s. The author argues that this dual outness was utilized as a strategy through which to accomplish three interrelated aims: to build a quee…
Sociology (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · History (3 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Race, History, and American Society (3 works)