Race and Arab Americans Before and After 9/11 From Invisible Citizens to Visible Subjects

Name: Race and Arab Americans Before and After 9/11 From Invisible Citizens to Visible Subjects
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ISBN: 9780815631774

ISBN-10: 0815631774

ISBN-13: 9780815631774

Edition: 2007

Authors: Amaney Jamal, Nadine Naber

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Bringing the rich terrain of Arab American histories to bear on conceptualizations of race in the U.S., 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 U.S.? 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…

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List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 378
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.254
Language: English



Figures and Tables


Acknowledgments


Contributors



Introduction: Arab Americans and U.S. Racial Formations




Thinking Outside the Box: Arabs and Race in the United States




The Moral Analogies of Race: Arab American Identity, Color Politics, and the Limits of Racialized Citizenship




Civil Liberties and the Otherization of Arab and Muslim Americans




"Whiteness" and the Arab Immigrant Experience




Strange Fruit?: Syrian Immigrants, Extralegal Violence, and Racial Formation in the United States




Grandmothers, Grape Leaves, and Kahlil Gibran: Writing Race in Anthologies of Arab American Literature




The Prime-Time Plight of the Arab Muslim American after 9/11: Configurations of Race and Nation in TV Dramas




Arab Americans and Muslim Americans in the New York Times, Before and After 9/11




"Look, Mohammed the Terrorist Is Coming!": Cultural Racism, Nation-Based Racism, and the Intersectionality of Oppressions after 9/11




Discrimination and Identity Formation in a Post-9/11 Era: A Comparison of Muslim and Christian Arab Americans




Conclusion: Arab American Racialization



Works Cited


Index