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Arabs in the Americas : interdisciplinary essays on the Arab diaspora / edited by Darcy A. Zabel.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Arabs--America--History.
- Arabs.
- Arabs--Migrations--History.
- Arabs--America--Social conditions.
- Arabs--America--Intellectual life.
- Ethnicity--America.
- Ethnicity.
- Stereotypes (Social psychology)--America.
- Stereotypes (Social psychology).
- American literature--Arab American authors.
- Ethnic relations.
- Intellectual life.
- Social conditions.
- Arabs--Migrations.
- History.
- America--Ethnic relations.
- America.
- American literature--Arab American authors--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- America--Intellectual life.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 236 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Peter Lang, [2006]
- Contents:
- Introduction: The Arab diaspora in the Americas, Latin America, the United States, and Canada / Darcy A. Zabel
- pt. 1. Arriving in the Americas
- The passage from west to south : Arabs between the Old and New World / Carol Fadda-Conrey
- Margins of memory on the Rua 25 de Marco : constructing the Syrian-Lebanese past in Sao Paulo, Brazil / John Tofik Karam
- The Syrian world in the New World : the contextual beginnings of Arab American literature and the part it played in identity formation / Hani Ismaeal Elayyan
- pt. 2. The experience of the Americas
- Multiple identities : Lebanese Arab Christians in the American West / Kirk Scott
- Stereotypes, popular culture, and school curriculum : how Arab American Muslim high school students perceive and cope with being the "other" / Nader Ayish
- Arabs in Honduras : immigration, integration, and the Palestinian presence / Sharon Lopez and Katharine Speer
- pt. 3. Assessing the Americas
- Gazing east from the Americas : assessing the cultural significance of Arab American literature / Steven Salaita
- Belly dancing for liberation : a critical interpretation of reclamation rhetoric in the American belly dance community / Amira Jarmakani
- Not just Disney : destructive stereotypes of Arabs in children's literature / Carolyn Speer Schmidt
- pt. 4. After 9/11
- Arab, Canadian, Muslim? : a question of identity / Omar Alghabar
- Apologies and amnesias : remembering and responding after 9/11 / Deirdre King Hainsworth
- Being Arab : growing up Canadian / Rula Sharkawi.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Elizabeth Bowers Peck, 1929 Endowment Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0820481114
- OCLC:
- 70660010
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