TY - BOOK AU - Fourlas,George N. TI - Anti-colonial solidarity: race, reconciliation, and MENA liberation T2 - Explorations in contemporary social-political philosophy (ESCPP) SN - 9781538141465 AV - E184.M52 F68 2021 U1 - 973.0494 23/eng/20211215 PY - 2022///] CY - Lanham PB - Rowman & Littlefield KW - Middle Easterners KW - United States KW - Middle Eastern Americans KW - Ethnic identity KW - Orientalism KW - Race discrimination KW - Anti-imperialist movements KW - Race relations KW - Ethnic relations N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; The "unknown" Middle Easterner : post-racial anxieties and anti-MENA racism throughout colonized space-time -- Changing lenses : anti-racist posturing versus praxis, an enactivist critique -- Calling-in MENA nationalists : why recent geopolitical boundaries fail to account for MENA subjectivity -- Decolonizing the ancients : or, the known West and the anti-colonial principle -- Flip the script : myth and example from the shores of Shinar -- Be ready : lessons from Cyprus and Rojava -- Conclusion: MENA America and the future N2 - "Entangled in misrecognition, Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) perceived people are socially and politically vulnerable throughout the colonized world. Anti-Colonial relational existence is possible through careful social labor, and cases of MENA communities prove that such normative praxis is not merely wishful thinking"-- ER -