Arab Detroit : from margin to mainstream / edited by Nabeel Abraham and Andrew Shryock.

Other author Abraham, Nabeel.
Other author Shryock, Andrew.
Format Book
Publication InfoDetroit : Wayne State University Press, ©2000.
Description629 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects
Arab Americans--Michigan. --Detroit. --Social conditions. --Miscellanea.
Arab Americans--Michigan. --Detroit. --Ethnic identity. --Miscellanea.
Arab Americans--Michigan. --Detroit. --Biography.
Detroit (Mich.)--Ethnic relations. --Miscellanea.

SeriesGreat Lakes books
Great Lakes books. ^A228688
Contents On margins and mainstreams / Andrew Shryock and Nabeel Abraham -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 99054827
ISBN0814328113 (alk. paper)
ISBN0814328121 (pbk. : alk. paper)