Arab Americans in Michigan
Title | Arab Americans in Michigan PDF eBook |
Author | Rosina J. Hassoun |
Publisher | MSU Press |
Pages | 132 |
Release | 2005-10-24 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1609170466 |
The state of Michigan hosts one of the largest and most diverse Arab American populations in the United States. As the third largest ethnic population in the state, Arab Americans are an economically important and politically influential group. It also reflects the diversity of national origins, religions, education levels, socioeconomic levels, and degrees of acculturation. Despite their considerable presence, Arab Americans have always been a misunderstood ethnic population in Michigan, even before September 11, 2001 imposed a cloud of suspicion, fear, and uncertainty over their ethnic enclaves and the larger community. In Arab Americans in Michigan Rosina J. Hassoun outlines the origins, culture, religions, and values of a people whose influence has often exceeded their visibility in the state.
Arab Americans in Metro Detroit
Title | Arab Americans in Metro Detroit PDF eBook |
Author | Anan Ameri |
Publisher | Arcadia Publishing |
Pages | 132 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780738519234 |
Arab Americans have been an integral part of Detroit's history since the 1880s. Early Arab immigrants worked as peddlers, grocers, and unskilled laborers, first settling downtown and later on the east side of Detroit. Their numbers increased after the First World War. They were attracted to the area by the booming automobile industry, and Ford's $5 for an 8-hour work day. This visual journey explores the history of four generations of Arab Americans in metro Detroit. It takes us to the days that preceded the automobile to modern 21st-century Arab America. Through more than 180 images, this book portrays the challenges and triumphs of Arabs as they preserve their families, and build churches, mosques, restaurants, businesses, and institutions, thus contributing to Detroit's efforts in regaining its position as a world class city.
Arab Detroit
Title | Arab Detroit PDF eBook |
Author | Nabeel Abraham |
Publisher | Wayne State University Press |
Pages | 644 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Arab Americans |
ISBN | 9780814328125 |
In this volume, Nabeel Abraham and Andrew Shryock bring together the work of twenty-five contributors to create a richly detailed portrait of Arab Detroit.
Citizenship and Crisis
Title | Citizenship and Crisis PDF eBook |
Author | Detroit Arab American Study Group |
Publisher | Russell Sage Foundation |
Pages | 310 |
Release | 2009-07-02 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1610446135 |
Is citizenship simply a legal status or does it describe a sense of belonging to a national community? For Arab Americans, these questions took on new urgency after 9/11, as the cultural prejudices that have often marginalized their community came to a head. Citizenship and Crisis reveals that, despite an ever-shifting definition of citizenship and the ease with which it can be questioned in times of national crisis, the Arab communities of metropolitan Detroit continue to thrive. A groundbreaking study of social life, religious practice, cultural values, and political views among Detroit Arabs after 9/11, Citizenship and Crisis argues that contemporary Arab American citizenship and identity have been shaped by the chronic tension between social inclusion and exclusion that has been central to this population's experience in America. According to the landmark Detroit Arab American Study, which surveyed more than 1,000 Arab Americans and is the focus of this book, Arabs express pride in being American at rates higher than the general population. In nine wide-ranging essays, the authors of Citizenship and Crisis argue that the 9/11 backlash did not substantially transform the Arab community in Detroit, nor did it alter the identities that prevail there. The city's Arabs are now receiving more mainstream institutional, educational, and political support than ever before, but they remain a constituency defined as essentially foreign. The authors explore the role of religion in cultural integration and identity formation, showing that Arab Muslims feel more alienated from the mainstream than Arab Christians do. Arab Americans adhere more strongly to traditional values than do other Detroit residents, regardless of religion. Active participants in the religious and cultural life of the Arab American community attain higher levels of education and income, yet assimilation to the American mainstream remains important for achieving enduring social and political gains. The contradictions and dangers of being Arab and American are keenly felt in Detroit, but even when Arab Americans oppose U.S. policies, they express more confidence in U.S. institutions than do non-Arabs in the general population. The Arabs of greater Detroit, whether native-born, naturalized, or permanent residents, are part of a political and historical landscape that limits how, when, and to what extent they can call themselves American. When analyzed against this complex backdrop, the results of The Detroit Arab American Study demonstrate that the pervasive notion in American society that Arabs are not like "us" is simply inaccurate. Citizenship and Crisis makes a rigorous and impassioned argument for putting to rest this exhausted cultural and political stereotype.
Hadha Baladuna
Title | Hadha Baladuna PDF eBook |
Author | Ghassan Zeineddine |
Publisher | Wayne State University Press |
Pages | 293 |
Release | 2022-06-07 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0814349269 |
This engaged stance is not a byproduct of culture, but a new way of thinking about the US in relation to one's homeland.
The Development of Arab-American Identity
Title | The Development of Arab-American Identity PDF eBook |
Author | Ernest Nasseph McCarus |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780472104390 |
Looks at all aspects--political, religious, and social--of the Arab-American experience.
Civil Rights Issues Facing Arab Americans in Michigan
Title | Civil Rights Issues Facing Arab Americans in Michigan PDF eBook |
Author | United States Commission on Civil Rights. Michigan State Advisory Committee |
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Pages | |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Arab Americans |
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