Not Quite White: Arabs, Slavs, and the Contours of Contested Whiteness

"Not Quite White: Arabs, Slavs, and the Contours of Contested Whiteness" is a documentary that expands the American conversation on race by zeroing in on whiteness as a constructed social and political category—an elusive concept that historically played favorites, advantaging Northern and Western European immigrants over immigrants from Eastern and Southern Europe and the Middle East.

Inspired by Jamil Khoury’s short play WASP: White Arab Slovak Pole, Not Quite White integrates scenes from WASP alongside interviews with Arab American and Polish American academics who reflect upon contested and probationary categories of whiteness and the use of anti-Black racism as a “whitening” dye.

PRODUCTION CREW

Directed by Jamil Khoury and Stephen Combs

Executive Producer: Malik Gillani

Featured:

Experts Roxane Assaf

Ann Hetzel Gunkel

John Tofik Karam

Dominic A. Pacyga

Director of Photography & Editor:  Stephen Combs

Composer:  Peter Storms

Submitted by Michael Mead, Silk Road Rising

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