Citizenship and Crisis: Arab Detroit After 9/11

Index

Boldface numbers refer to figures and tables. INDEX AAPOR. See American Association for Public Opinion Research Abbas-Chami, Rena, 77, 97n17 Abraham, Nabeel, 35, 103 Abraham, Sameer, 35 Abraham, Spencer, 129n14, 265 ACC. See Arab American and Chaldean Council ACCESS. See Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services ACLU of Michigan, 96n14–15 ADC. See American-Arab AntiDiscrimination Committee Agamben, Giorgio, 64–65 Ahmed, Ismael, 75, 129n14 Alba, Richard, 152 Aleinikoff, Alexander, 8 Alexandria Protocol, 238 Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798, 193 Ali-Haimoud, Farouk, 84 Allport, Gordon, 259n18 Almarabh, Nabil, 84 Almond, Gabriel, 229–30, 234, 255 Alterman, Eric, 256n3 Amen, Ronald, 76–77, 82 American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), 58, 77, 87–88, 90, 128n4 American Arab Chamber of Commerce, 5, 58, 88 American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR), 19–20 American exceptionalism, 70, 157 Americanization. See integration/ adaptation/incorporation American mainstream: within Arab American communities, specific version of, 268; Arab difference and national belonging in, 265–66; Arab exclusion and inclusion, making sense of, 268–71; confidence in public institutions , 275–76; the enemy/friend model of Arab Americans and, 280–81; political beliefs of Arab Americans, 277–79; values, Arab American values vs., 135–37, 158–59; 288 INDEX vision of as backdrop for Arab American identity, 273. See also citizenship ; identity; integration/adaptation /incorporation; national identity American Moslem Society, 108, 127 Anderson, Benedict, 10 Anti-Defamation League, 228 Arab American and Chaldean Council (ACC), 74, 87, 270 Arab American Center for Civil and Human Rights, 88 Arab American National Museum, 58, 88–89, 270 Arab American News, 58 Arab American Political Action Committee (AAPAC), 95n11 Arab Americans: the American mainstream and (see American mainstream); as an ethnic label, willingness to accept, 52–55, 111, 118–19; backlash against following 9/11 (see backlash following 9/11); civil liberties, positions regarding , 194–95, 201–16 (see also civil liberties ); communities of in Detroit (see Arab Detroit; community); confidence in public institutions, 275–76; the enemy/friend model of, 280–81; foreign-born in the United States, 39; foreign policy and world affairs, opinions regarding (see foreign policy); identity as (see identity); as immigrants (see Arab immigrants); integration into the larger society (see integration/adaptation/incorporation); as “limit figures,” 270; Muslim and Christian, differences between (see Muslim/Christian Arabs); public service among, 74–75; social capital of (see social capital); U.S. citizenship as highly prized among, 45, 266 (see also citizenship); in the U.S. population, 27n3; values of (see values); the war on terrorism and (see backlash following 9/11; war on terrorism) Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services (ACCESS), 58, 72, 74, 87–89, 270 Arab Detroit: as an ethnic community, 37; Arab public servants in, 74–75; backlash following 9/11 in (see backlash following 9/11); citizenship and crisis in, 36–37, 64–65; concentration of Arabs in, 73; contradictions of, 63–65; data on, sources of, 16–20; economic demographics in, 73–74; educational achievement in, 45–47, 50–51, 73–74; English fluency and multilingualism in, 45–46, 50–51; ethnic identification in, 52–55; as exceptional, 25–26, 70–76; global and local attention attracted by, 35–36; identity formation in, 37–39 (see also identity); immigration to (see Arab immigrants); income in, 47, 50–51, 73–74; lobbying organizations in, 74; patterns of the historical process unfolding in, 281–83; political complexity of, 277–79; political incorporation of Arab Americans in, 92–93; population of, 36; portrait of, 4–6; racial identification in, 54, 56–57; religion and incorporation into political society in, 103–7 (see also integration/ adaptation/incorporation; religion); as representative or exceptional of Arab American mainstream (cont.) America, tensions between, 69–71; Syrian Colony in, 40; the war on terror in, community reactions to, 87–92; the war on terrorism in, federal law enforcement and, 83–87. See also Dearborn Arab immigrants: “boaters” as derogatory term for, 213, 268; compatibility of Islam and American culture for, 112; country of origin, 40, 41; Dearborn as an enclave of, 73 (see also Dearborn); economic and educational demographics of, 73–74; gender of, 44; generation and decade of arrival in the United States, 42; incorporation into the larger society (see integration/ adaptation/incorporation); lobbying organizations representing, 74; religious affiliation of, 43–44; time in the United States, 40–43; U.S. foreign policy and...