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Arab Detroit : from margin to mainstream
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- Online
Details
- Creator
- edited by Nabeel Abraham and Andrew Shryock
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Detroit : Wayne State University Press, [2000]
- ©2000
- Series
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (629 pages) : illustrations
- data file
- ISBNs
- 9780814328118, 9780814328125, 9780814339787, 0814328121, 0814328113, 0814339786
- OCLC
- ocn868219023, ocn923512537
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- English.
- Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- On Margins and Mainstreams -- PART 1 QUALITIES/QUANTITIES -- Introduction -- 8 Houses from the Birthplace of Henry Ford
- Building the Infrastructure of Arab American Identity in Detroit A Short History of ACCESS and the Community It Serves A Demographic Portrait of Arab Detroit -- PART 2 WORK -- Introduction -- You Only Exist Inside Me -- In the Tenth Year of War -- Dumb like a Fox
- Growing up in Detroit An Immigrant Grocer's Daughter Fandy -- Behind the Bulletproof Glass Iraqi Chaldean Store Ownership in Metropolitan Detroit -- There I Am Again -- On the Road with Bob Peddling in the Early Sixties -- PART 3 RELIGION -- Introduction -- What They Did
- The American Journey of a Chaldean from Iraq Egyptian Copts in Detroit Ethnic Community and Long-Distance Nationalism -- Finding the Straight Path A Conversation with Mohsen and Lila Amen about Faith, Life, and Family in Dearborn -- Arab Detroit's American Mosque
- PART 4 POLITICS Introduction -- Aliya Hassan -- Important Things to an Eight Year Old For Haji Aliya Hassan -- After Karbala Iraqi Refugees in Detroit -- Politics, Pragmatism, and the Arab Vote A Conversation with Maya Berry -- Status Refugee -- PART 5 LIFE JOURNEYS