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Title Race and Arab Americans before and after 9/11 : from invisible citizens to visible subjects / edited by Amaney Jamal and Nadine Naber.

Publication Info. Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2008.

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 Moore Stacks  E184.A65 R33 2008    Available  ---
Edition 1st ed.
Description xiii, 378 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series Arab American writing
Arab American writing.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-356) and index.
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. 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. 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.
Subject Arab Americans -- Race identity.
Arab Americans.
Arab Americans -- Civil rights.
Arab Americans -- Civil rights.
Arab Americans -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Arab Americans -- Social conditions.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Arab Americans -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
Chronological Term 21st century
Subject September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 -- Influence.
September 11 Terrorist Attacks (2001)
United States -- Race relations.
United States.
Race relations.
Racism -- United States.
Racism.
Racism.
Added Author Jamal, Amaney A., 1970-
Naber, Nadine Christine.
Other Form: Online version: Race and Arab Americans before and after 9/11. 1st ed. Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2008 (OCoLC)652322363
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