Race and Arab Americans before and after 9/11
Subtitle: from invisible citizens to visible subjects
By: edited by Amaney Jamal and Nadine Naber.
Contributors: Jamal, Amaney A., 1970-; Naber, Nadine Christine.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Arab American writing
Publisher: Syracuse University Press; USYRC
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Syracuse, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 378
ISBN-13: 9780815631521
Subjects: Arab Americans -- Race identity; Arab Americans -- Civil rights; Arab Americans -- Social conditions -- 20th century; Arab Americans -- Social conditions -- 21st century; September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 -- Influence; Racism -- United States; United States -- Race relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-356) and index.
Table of contents: title: Arab Americans and U.S. racial formations / Nadine Naber; title: Thinking outside the box : Arabs and race in the United States / Louise Cainkar; title: The moral analogies of race : Arab American identity, color politics, and the limits of racialized citizenship / Andrew Shryock; title: Civil liberties and the otherization of Arab and Muslim Americans / Amaney Jamal; title: "Whiteness" and the Arab immigrant experience / Sawsan Abdulrahim; title: Strange fruit? Syrian immigrants, extralegal violence, and racial formation in the United States / Sarah M.A. Gualtieri; title: Grandmothers, grape leaves, and Kahlil Gibran : writing race in anthologies of Arab American literature / Michelle Hartman; title: The prime-time plight of the Arab Muslim American after 9/11 : configurations of race and nation in TV dramas / Evelyn Alsultany; title: 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; title: "Look, Mohammed the terrorist is coming!" Cultural racism, nation-based racism, and the intersectionality of oppressions after 9/11 / Nadine Naber; title: Discrimination and identity formation in a post-9/11 era : a comparison of Muslim and Christian Arab Americans / Jen'nan Ghazal Read; title: Conclusion : Arab American racialization / Amaney Jamal.