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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jamal, Amaney A., 1970- editor.

Naber, Nadine Christine, editor.

Series:

Arab American writing.

Arab American writing

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arab Americans--Ethnic identity.

Arab Americans.

Arab Americans--Civil rights.

United States--Race relations.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 378 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Race and Arab Americans Before and After 9/11

Place of Publication:

Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2022.

Summary:

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 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 11th, 2001, this volume locates September 11 as a turning point, rather than a beginning, in Arab Americans' diverse engagements with "race." -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Figures and Tables

Acknowledgments

Contributors

ONE Introduction

Arab Americans and U.S. Racial Formations NADINE NABER

TWO Thinking Outside the Box

Arabs and Race in the United States LOUISE CAINKAR

THREE The Moral Analogies of Race

Arab American Identity, Color Politics, and the Limits of Racialized Citizenship ANDREW SHRYOCK

FOUR Civil Liberties and the Otherization of Arab and Muslim Americans AMANEY JAMAL

FIVE "Whiteness" and the Arab Immigrant Experience SAWSAN ABDULRAHIM

SIX Strange Fruit?

Syrian Immigrants, Extralegal Violence, and Racial Formation in the United States SARAH M. A. GUALTIERI

SEVEN Grandmothers, Grape Leaves, and Kahlil Gibran

Writing Race in Anthologies of Arab American Literature MICHELLE HARTMAN

EIGHT The Prime-Time Plight of the Arab Muslim American after 9/11

Configurations of Race and Nation in TV Dramas EVELYN ALSULTANY

NINE Arab Americans and Muslim Americans in the New York Times, Before and After 9/11 SUAD JOSEPH AND BENJAMIN D'HARLINGUE, WITH ALVIN KA HIN WONG

TEN "Look, Mohammed the Terrorist Is Coming!"

Cultural Racism, Nation-Based Racism, and the Intersectionality of Oppressions after 9/12 NADINE NABER

ELEVEN Discrimination and Identity Formation in a Post-9/11 Era

A Comparison of Muslim and Christian Arab Americans JEN'NAN GHAZAL READ

TWELVE Conclusion

Arab American Racialization AMANEY JAMAL

Works Cited

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Publisher Number:

heb40061 hdl