Assignment for Dr. Cooke
Yang Qing
According to Pavlovskaya and Bier (2011,485), “The marginalization of a
group such as Arab Americans is often a part of a complex ideological
production (Naber, 2000). Absence of information, including census-based
knowledge, aids marginalization by making it easy to disregard or negatively
stereotype group identity.” Basically, they argues that Arab Americans are
often marginalized because the census fails to account for viable categories
for them to choose.
Census fails to account for classifications of some ethnical groups, which is
part of the reason why Arab Americans are often marginalization
(Pavlovskaya and Bier, 2011, 485).
Reference:
Marianna Pavlovskaya and Jess Bier, 2011, Mapping census data for
difference: Towards the heterogeneous geographies of Arab American
communities of the New York metropolitan area. Geoforum 43 (2012), 483–
496.