Arab Detroit

Arab Detroit: from margin to mainstream

by Abraham, Nabeel Shryock, Andrew

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Metropolitan Detroit is home to one of the largest and most diverse Arab communities outside the Middle East. Arabic-speaking immigrants have been coming to Detroit for more than a century, yet the community they have built is barely visible on the landscape of ethnic America. Arab Detroit brings together the work of twenty-five contributors to create a richly detailed portrait of Arab Detroit. Memoirs and poems by Lebanese, Chaldean, Yemeni, and Palestinian writers anchor the book in personal …

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

Summary

Metropolitan Detroit is home to one of the largest and most diverse Arab communities outside the Middle East. Arabic-speaking immigrants have been coming to Detroit for more than a century, yet the community they have built is barely visible on the landscape of ethnic America. Arab Detroit brings together the work of twenty-five contributors to create a richly detailed portrait of Arab Detroit. Memoirs and poems by Lebanese, Chaldean, Yemeni, and Palestinian writers anchor the book in personal experience, and more than fifty photographs drawn from family albums and the files of local photojournalists provide a backdrop of vivid, often unexpected images. Students and scholars of ethnicity, immigration, and Arab American communities will welcome this diverse collect on.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©2000.

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The Physical Object

  • Description:629 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm.

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:0814328113, 9780814328118, 0814328121, 9780814328125
  • oclc:ocm42771439
  • LC Classification:F574.D49
  • Dewey Decimal:305.8927077434

Subjects

71.37 ethnic groups Américains d'origine arabe -- Biographi… Américains d'origine arabe -- Identité … Américains d'origine arabe -- Michigan … Américains d'origine arabe -- Miscellan… Américains d'origine arabe -- Miscellan… Arab Americans Arab Americans -- Biography. -- Michigan Arab Americans -- Ethnic identity Arab Americans -- Miscellanea. -- Ethni… Arab Americans -- Miscellanea. -- Socia… Arab Americans -- Social conditions Arabieren Biographies Detroit (Mich.) -- Miscellanea. -- Ethn… Detroit (Mich.) -- Miscellanées. -- Rel… Detroit (Mich.) -- Relations interethni… Ethnic relations Immigranten Michigan -- Detroit

Writers

Abraham, Nabeel Shryock, Andrew

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