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Title Arab Detroit : from margin to mainstream / edited by Nabeel Abraham and Andrew Shryock
Published Detroit : Wayne State University Press, ©2000

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Description 1 online resource (629 pages) : illustrations
Series Great Lakes books
Great Lakes books.
Contents Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- On Margins and Mainstreams -- PART 1 QUALITIES/QUANTITIES -- Introduction -- 8 Houses from the Birthplace of Henry Ford
Building the Infrastructure of Arab American Identity in Detroit A Short History of ACCESS and the Community It Serves A Demographic Portrait of Arab Detroit -- PART 2 WORK -- Introduction -- You Only Exist Inside Me -- In the Tenth Year of War -- Dumb like a Fox
Growing up in Detroit An Immigrant Grocer's Daughter Fandy -- Behind the Bulletproof Glass Iraqi Chaldean Store Ownership in Metropolitan Detroit -- There I Am Again -- On the Road with Bob Peddling in the Early Sixties -- PART 3 RELIGION -- Introduction -- What They Did
The American Journey of a Chaldean from Iraq Egyptian Copts in Detroit Ethnic Community and Long-Distance Nationalism -- Finding the Straight Path A Conversation with Mohsen and Lila Amen about Faith, Life, and Family in Dearborn -- Arab Detroit's American Mosque
PART 4 POLITICS Introduction -- Aliya Hassan -- Important Things to an Eight Year Old For Haji Aliya Hassan -- After Karbala Iraqi Refugees in Detroit -- Politics, Pragmatism, and the Arab Vote A Conversation with Maya Berry -- Status Refugee -- PART 5 LIFE JOURNEYS
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Arab Americans -- Michigan -- Detroit -- Biography
Arab Americans -- Michigan -- Detroit -- Ethnic identity -- Miscellanea
Arab Americans -- Michigan -- Detroit -- Social conditions -- Miscellanea
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Arab Americans
Arab Americans -- Ethnic identity
Arab Americans -- Social conditions
Ethnic relations
Arabieren.
Immigranten.
Américains d'origine arabe -- Detroit (Mich.) -- Identité collective.
Américains d'origine arabe -- Michigan (États-Unis)
SUBJECT Detroit (Mich.) -- Ethnic relations -- Miscellanea
Subject Michigan -- Detroit
Detroit (Mich.) -- Relations interethniques.
Genre/Form miscellanies.
Biographies
Trivia and miscellanea
Trivia and miscellanea.
Biographies.
Miscellanées.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Shryock, Andrew
Abraham, Nabeel
ISBN 9780814339787
0814339786
9780814328118
0814328113