In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a widely-reaching conversation emerged among educators and agriculturalists on the problems facing rural education in the United States. The traditional one-room school, they believed, was poorly constructed, inadequately sta…
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This study is intended to extend our understanding of immigrant political integration by analyzing Yemeni immigrants' attitudes toward integration into North American society, exploring the case of Yemeni-Americans, a group reputedly resistant to integration, in both Dearborn an…
Wallace Fard, founder of the Nation of Islam (NOI), drew on a variety of sources in crafting his movement's early teachings. Sociologist Eerdman Beynon was the first scholar to study the NOI, and his seminal 1938 article remains an important source on the movement's early influe…
The diversity of the Metropolitan Detroit area is utilized to conduct a comparative study of acculturation (dietary and lifestyle) in four sub-groups (Syrian/Lebanese, Iraqi/Chaldeans, Jordanian/Palestinians and Yemenis) of 300 Arab and Chaldean-American adults and 113 Arab chil…
The dissertation is an ethnographic study of the experiences of Chaldean immigrant women, with an emphasis on gender and family, in metropolitan Detroit. Research was conducted between 1993 and 1997. Data collection consisted of in-depth interviews, ethnographic field work and p…
In Detroit, African Americans constitute over eighty percent of the population, and the black community has a firm grip on municipal political power in the city. But among African Americans there is still a pervasive sense of disenfranchisement at the hands of large corporate, a…
During the Progressive Era, a number of reform mayors assumed office in cities throughout America. Three Midwestern cities, Detroit, Michigan, and Toledo and Cleveland, Ohio, were particularly blessed in this regard. Hazen S. Pingree of Detroit, elected in 1889, challenged priva…
Immigrants have always played an important role in the United States economy. The purpose of this study was to examine the adaptation of Arab immigrants and refugees who left their countries due to the invasion of Kuwait on August 2, 1990 and resettled in the Tri-county of Great…
The St. Clair River delta, the largest in the Great Lakes area, is located astride the border between Michigan, United States of America (U.S.A.), and Ontario Canada. It resembles a classic river-dominated delta system, with a typical “birds foot” morphology The St. Clair River …
Epidemiologic investigations have consistently shown higher incidences of laboratory-confirmed Salmonella infections (salmonellosis) in children compared to adults. Our recent work investigating associations between demographic attributes and salmonellosis based on data from the…
Since the events of September 11, Arab Detroit (AD) has figured prominently in the U.S. government's war against terrorism. AD spokespersons have attempted to mediate the government presence in order to protect AD residents' from acts of government brutality. Eight years post th…
Immigrant populations provide a unique opportunity to explore the intersection of cultural and environmental risk factors implicated in asthma etiology and exacerbation. As an underserved, low-income ethnic minority group living in an urban area with high levels of industrial po…
Neighborhood residential stability is widely considered to be beneficial to the health of neighborhoods and the people who live in them, but may influence health differently depending on neighborhood income composition. To examine these effects in an older, predominantly low inc…
This acculturation study examined the role of media among a sample of Arab women immigrants living in Metropolitan Detroit, home to the highest concentration of Arabic-speaking communities in the United States. This inquiry used a communication perspective with in-depth intervie…
This dissertation is based on three years of ethnographic fieldwork and 40 in-depth interviews with members of the Michigan militia. Militia members are mostly white men who believe in an originalist interpretation of the Constitution. Armed with rifles, they practice paramilita…
This study examined assimilation in the Jordanian community in the Metropolitan Detroit area. Gordon's model of assimilation provided the theoretical framework for the study. Gordon argued that assimilation is not a single process, but is rather a function of seven subprocesses,…
In the last few decades, the concept of a food desert has captured the attention of the public and academia. Research has referred to food desert as an area with lack of access to adequate healthy food, especially for those without a vehicle or who live more than 1⁄4 mile walkin…
Inadequate access to a good selection of high-quality nutritious foods may be a barrier to healthy eating in impoverished, African-American neighborhoods and contribute to higher morbidity and mortality. In this study, I examined the spatial distribution of nutritional resources…
Michigan’s landscape has undergone significant alterations due to human activities during the nineteenth century. By the mid-nineteenth century, Michigan had become a leading lumber producer in the United States. However, by the turn of the twentieth century, the logging industr…