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Arab Detroit : from margin to mainstream
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- Creator
- edited by Nabeel Abraham and Andrew Shryock
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- Detroit : Wayne State University Press, [2000]
- ©2000
- Series
- Physical Details
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- 629 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780814328118, 9780814328125, 9780814339787, 0814328121, 0814328113, 0814339786
- OCLC
- ocm42771439, ocn868219023
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- On Margins and Mainstreams / Andrew Shryock and Nabeel Abraham -- Pt. 1. Qualities/Quantities. 8 Houses from the Birthplace of Henry Ford / Hayan Charara. Building the Infrastructure of Arab American Identity in Detroit: A Short History of ACCESS and the Community It Serves / Karen Rignall. A Demographic Portrait of Arab Detroit / Kim Schopmeyer -- Pt. 2. Work. You Only Exist Inside Me / Lawrence Joseph. In the Tenth Year of War / Lawrence Joseph. Dumb like a Fox / Don Unis. Growing up in Detroit: An Immigrant Grocer's Daughter / Alixa Naff. Fandy / Kevin Rashid. Behind the Bulletproof Glass: Iraqi Chaldean Store Ownership in Metropolitan Detroit / Gary C. David. There I Am Again / Lawrence Joseph. On the Road with Bob: Peddling in the Early Sixties / Nabeel Abraham -- Pt. 3. Religion. What They Did / Hayan Charara. The American Journey of a Chaldean from Iraq / Sharkey Haddad. Egyptian Copts in Detroit: Ethnic Community and Long-Distance Nationalism / Richard R. Jones. Finding the Straight Path: A Conversation with Mohsen and Lila Amen about Faith, Life, and Family in Dearborn / Sally Howell. Arab Detroit's "American" Mosque / Nabeel Abraham -- Pt. 4. Politics. Aliya Hassan. Important Things to an Eight Year Old: For Haji Aliya Hassan / Saladin Ahmed. After Karbala: Iraqi Refugees in Detroit / Linda S. Walbridge and T. M. Aziz. Politics, Pragmatism, and the "Arab Vote": A Conversation with Maya Berry / Sally Howell. Status: Refugee / Amira Saad -- Pt. 5. Life Journeys. Daughter of America / Shams Alwujude. Coming Home / Lara Hamza. Becoming the Center of Mystery / Hayan Charara. To Palestine and Back: Quest for Place / Nabeel Abraham. Hope, Figs, and a Place Called Home / Jeffrey Ghannam. What's Not in a Name / Marilynn Rashid -- Pt. 6. Ethnic Futures. The Art and Artistry of Arab Detroit: Changing Traditions in a New World / Sally Howell. Continuity and Adaptation in Arab American Foodways / William G. Lockwood and Yvonne R. Lockwood. The Sound of Culture, The Structure of Tradition: Musicians' Work in Arab Detroit / Anne Rasmussen. Family Resemblances: Kinship and Community in Arab Detroit / Andrew Shryock. Steps / Naomi Shihab Nye