Over at MERIP, an interesting piece by Mustapha Bayoumi just appeared, in which he takes a look at race in a post 9/11, post Obama era America. The piece starts off with an amusing quote from this Dean Obeidallah skit, but then starts to dig deeper into recent pop culture representations of Arabs in American media. At the heart of the piece is the question of how African Americans and Arab American/Muslims are being represented in mainstream American culture and what work these racial identities are doing when performed in front of a white audience. Very interesting piece, and as always, would love to know what any of you think.