Race and Arab Americans before and after 9/11 : from invisible citizens to visible subjects / edited by Amaney Jamal and Nadine Naber.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2008. |
| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Arab American writing.
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Table of Contents:
- Figures and tables
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- 1. Introduction : Arab Americans and U.S. racial formations / Nadine Naber
- 2. Thinking outside the box : Arabs and race in the United States / Louise Cainkar
- 3. The moral analogies of race : Arab American identity, color politics, and the limits of racialized citizenship / Andrew Shryock
- 4. Civil liberties and the otherization of Arab and Muslim Americans / Amaney Jamal
- 5. "Whiteness" and the Arab immigrant experience / Sawsan Abdulrahim
- 6. Strange fruit? Syrian immigrants, extralegal violence, and racial formation in the United States / Sarah M.A. Gualtieri
- 7. Grandmothers, grape leaves, and Kahlil Gibran : writing race in anthologies of Arab American literature / Michelle Hartman
- 8. The prime-time plight of the Arab Muslim American after 9/11 : configurations of race and nation in TV dramas / Evelyn Alsultany
- 9. Arab Americans and Muslim Americans in the New York Times, before and after 9/11 / Suad Joseph, Benjamin D'Harlingue, with Alvin Ka Hin Wong
- 10. "Look, Mohammed the terrorist is coming!" Cultural racism, nation-based racism, and the intersectionality of oppressions after 9/11 / Nadine Naber
- 11. Discrimination and identity formation in a post-9/11 era : a comparison of Muslim and Christian Arab Americans / Jen'nan Ghazal Read
- 12. Conclusion : Arab American racialization / Amaney Jamal
- Works cited
- Index.