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Race and Arab Americans Before and After 9/11: From Invisible Citizens to Visible Subjects
Amaney Jamal and Nadine Naber
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Bringing the rich terrain of Arab American histories to bear on conceptualizations of race in the United States, this groundbreaking volume fills a critical gap in the field of U.S. racial and ethnic studies. The articles collected here highlight emergent discourses on the distinct ways that race matters to the study of Arab American histories and experiences and asks essential questions. What is the relationship between U.S. imperialism in Arab homelands and anti-Arab racism in the United States? In what ways have the axes of nation, religion, class, and gender intersected with Arab American racial formations? What is the significance of whiteness studies to Arab American studies? Transcending multiculturalist discourses that have simply added on the category "Arab-American" to the landscape of U.S. racial and ethnic studies after the attacks of September 11, 2001, this volume locates September 11 as a turning point, rather than as a beginning, in Arab Americans' histories.
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Cover Page
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Title Page
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Copyright Page
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Contents
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Figures and Tables
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Acknowledgments
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Contributors
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Chapter One: Introduction
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Chapter Two: Thinking Outside the Box
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Chapter Three: The Moral Analogies of Race
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Chapter Four: Civil Liberties and the Otherization of Arab and Muslim Americans
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Chapter Five: “Whiteness” and the Arab Immigrant Experience
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Chapter Six: Strange Fruit?
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Chapter Seven: Grandmothers, Grape Leaves, and Kahlil Gibran
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Chapter Eight: The Prime-Time Plight of the Arab Muslim American after 9/11
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Chapter Nine: Arab Americans and Muslim Americans in the New York Times, Before and After 9/11
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Chapter Ten: “Look, Mohammed the Terrorist Is Coming!”
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Chapter Eleven: Discrimination and Identity Formation in a Post-9/11 Era
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Chapter Twelve: Conclusion
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Works Cited
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Index
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Published: 2008
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
- 978-0-8156-3177-4 (paper)
- 978-0-8156-3152-1 (hardcover)