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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810441603321

Titolo

Arab Detroit 9/11 : life in the terror decade / / edited by Nabeel Abraham, Sally Howell, and Andrew Shryock

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Detroit, : Wayne State University Press, c2011

ISBN

0-8143-3682-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

vii, 413 p. : ill

Collana

Great Lakes books

Altri autori (Persone)

AbrahamNabeel

HowellSally

ShryockAndrew

Disciplina

305.8927/073077434

Soggetti

Arab Americans - Michigan - Detroit - Social conditions - 21st century

Arab Americans - Michigan - Detroit - Economic conditions - 21st century

Muslims - Michigan - Detroit - Social conditions - 21st century

Community life - Michigan - Detroit - History - 21st century

September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 - Influence

National characteristics, American

Citizenship - United States

Detroit (Mich.) Social conditions 21st century

Detroit (Mich.) Economic conditions 21st century

Detroit (Mich.) Ethnic relations History 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Arab Detroit after 9/11: a changing demographic portrait / Kim Schopmeyer -- Cracking down on diaspora: Arab Detroit and America's war on terror / Sally Howell and Andrew Shryock -- Backlash, part 2: The Federal law enforcement agenda / Sally Howell and Amaney Jamal -- Orthodox, Arab, American: the flexibility of Christian Arabness in Detroit / Matthew W. Stiffler -- Fighting our own battles: Iraqi Chaldeans and the war on terror / Yasmeen Hanoosh -- Muslims as moving targets: external scrutiny and internal critique in Detroit's mosques / Sally Howell -- Detroit transnational: the interchange experience in Lebanon and the United States / Kristine J. Ajrouch -- My



life as a brown person / Mujan Seif -- Subject to change / Khadigah Alasry -- Going places / Hayan Charara -- And then you add the Arab thing / Lawrence Joseph -- Domestic foreign policy: Arab Detroit as a special place in the war on terror / William Youmans -- The Arab American National Museum: sanctioning Arabness for a post-9/11 America / Rachel Yezbick -- Toward electability: public office and the Arab vote / Abdulkader H. Sinno and Eren Tatari -- Arabs behaving badly: the limits of containment in a post-9/11 world / Nabeel Abraham -- The new order and its forgotten histories / Andrew Shryock, Nabeel Abraham, and Sally Howell.

Sommario/riassunto

Contributors explore the trauma, unexpected political gains, and moral ambiguities faced by Arab Detroiters in post-9/11 America.