Sajjilu Arab American : a reader in SWANA studies / edited by Louise Cainkar, Pauline Homsi Vinson, and Amira Jarmakani.
| Other author | Cainkar, Louise, editor. |
| Other author | Vinson, Pauline Homsi, editor. |
| Other author | Jarmakani, Amira, 1974- editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication | Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2021. |
| Description | 1 volume : illustrations (black and white) ; 28 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Critical Arab American studies Critical Arab American studies. ^A1373911 |
| Contents | Introduction: Sajjilu Arab American : a reader in SWANA studies / Louise Cainkar, Pauline Homsi Vinson, and Amira Jarmakani -- Introduction to Food for our grandmothers / Joe Kadi -- The politics of cultural authenticity / Nadine Naber -- Excerpts from the introduction and chapter one of New body politics : narrating Arab and black identity in the contemporary United States / Ther̐ui Pickens -- The Sephardi-Moorish Atlantic : between orientalism and Occidentalism / Ella Shohat -- Grandmothers, grape leaves, and Kahlil Gibran / Michelle Hartman -- Mobilizing the politics of invisibility / Amira Jarmakani -- The early Arab immigrant experience / Alixa Naff -- Narrating Arab American history : the peddling thesis / Charlotte Karem Albrecht -- The Arab gaucho from Between Argentines and Arabs : Argentine orientalism, Arab immigrants, and the writing of identity / Christina Civantos -- Becoming 'Syrian' in America : a global geography of ethnicity and nation / Akram Khater -- Representing Arabs and Muslims in the US after 9/11 : gender, religion, and citizenship / Carol W.N. Fadda -- Arab-American refugee subjects / Madeline Otis Campbell -- Projections of Palestine : negotiating diasporic Palestinian identity in the United States through film festival participation / Umayyah Cable -- Claiming whiteness : Syrians and naturalization law / Sarah Gualtieri -- Arab-Americans and the meanings of race / Lisa Suhair Majaj -- Ethnic identity and imperative patriotism : Arab Americans before and after 9/11 / Steven Salaita -- The limits of Muslim cool / Su'ad Abdul Khabeer -- The racial dilemma / Erik Love -- A different kind of brown : Arabs and Middle Easterners as anti-American Muslims / Bradley Zopf -- Introduction : the politics of privilege to Another arabesque : Syrian-Lebanese ethnicity in neoliberal Brazil / John Tofik Karam -- Challenging the terrorist stereotype / Evelyn Alsultany -- Introduction to American Arabesque : Arabs, Islam, and the 19th-century Imaginary / Jacob R. Berman -- The rise of Arab American literature / Wa̐ui Hassan -- The pulse of queer life : Arab bodies in gay bars / Mejdulene Shomali -- Female Arab American solo performance : a burgeoning genre of Arab American art / Michael Malek Najjar -- Consuming orientalism : public foodways of Arab American Christians / Matthew Jaber Stiffler -- Arab American literature, storytelling, and the paradox of Shahrazad / Pauline Homsi Vinson -- Whose homeland security from Homeland insecurity : the Arab American and Muslim American experience after 9/11 / Louise Cainkar -- Introduction to This Muslim American life : dispatches from the War on Terror / Moustafa Bayoumi -- Water occupation and the ecology of Arab American literature / Danielle Haque -- You (shall) have the body : patterns of life in the shadow of Guant̐uanamo / Keith Feldman -- Cracking down on diaspora : Arab Detroit and America's "War on Terror" / Sally Howell and Andrew Shryock -- Borders are obsolete : relations beyond the "borderlands" of Palestine and US-Mexico / Leslie Quintanilla and Jennifer Mogannam -- Arab American feminism : historical convergences and transnational solidarities / Therese Saliba -- Transnational alliances : the AAUG's advocacy for Palestine and the Third World / Suraya Khan -- From the river to the sea to every mountaintop : solidarity as worldmaking / Robin D.G. Kelley -- Let us be Moors : race, Islam, and "connected histories" / Hishaam Aidi -- Democracy and its others from the 9/11 generation : youth, rights, and solidarity in the War on Terror / Sunaina Maira -- Complex solidarities : native communities confront the North Dakota Access Pipeline / Dana Olwan. |
| Abstract | "'Sajjulu Arab American' is a carefully curated multi-disciplinary collection of scholarly writings in Arab American studies. Written by both recognized and emerging scholars, the collected essays utilize a wide range of theoretical frames and analytic lenses that are essential to understanding the field"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Sajjilu Arab American First edition. Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2021 9780815655220 |
| LCCN | 2021041097 |
| ISBN | 9780815637219 |
| ISBN | 9780815637356 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 0815637357 |
| ISBN | 0815637217 |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
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