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Arab Detroit 9/11: Life in the Terror Decade

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Edited by Nabeel Abraham, Sally Howell, and Andrew Shryock
2011
Published by: Wayne State University Press
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Contributors explore the trauma, unexpected political gains, and moral ambiguities faced by Arab Detroiters in post-9/11 America.

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Cover

Half-Title

pp. i

Title

pp. iii

Copyright

pp. iv-

Dedication

pp. ii

Contents

pp. vi

Acknowledgments

pp. vii

The Terror Decade in Arab Detroit: An Introduction

pp. 1-25

Part 1 THE SHAPE OF ARAB DETROIT

Arab Detroit after 9/11: A Changing Demographic Portrait

pp. 29-63

Part 2 AFTERMATH CHRONICLES

Cracking Down on Diaspora: Arab Detroit and America’s War on Terror

pp. 67-86

Backlash, Part 2: The Federal Law Enforcement Agenda

pp. 87-101

Part 3 LOCAL REFRACTIONS

Orthodox, Arab, American: The Flexibility of Christian Arabness in Detroit

pp. 105-125

Fighting Our Own Battles: Iraqi Chaldeans and the War on Terror

pp. 126-150

Muslims as Moving Targets: External Scrutiny and Internal Critique in Detroit’s Mosques

pp. 151-185

Detroit Transnational: The Interchange Experience in Lebanon and the United States

pp. 186-209

Part 4 CIVILIAN STORIES

My Life as a Brown Person

pp. 213-220

Subject to Change

pp. 221-238

Going Places

pp. 239-253

And Then You Add the Arab Thing

pp. 254-266

Part 5 PROTECTIVE SHIELD AND GLASS CEILING

Domestic Foreign Policy: Arab Detroit as a Special Place in the War on Terror

pp. 269-286

The Arab American National Museum: Sanctioning Arabness for a Post- 9/11 America

pp. 287-314

Toward Electability: Public Office and the Arab Vote

pp. 315-346

Arabs Behaving Badly: The Limits of Containment in a Post- 9/11 World

pp. 347-377

Part 6 HARD LESSONS

The New Order and Its Forgotten Histories

pp. 381-393

Contributors

pp. 395-397

Index

pp. 399-413
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