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Arab
Detroit
From Margin to Mainstream
Edited by Nabeel Abraham and Andrew Shryock |
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Metropolitan
Detroit is home to one of the largest, most diverse Arab communities outside
the Middle East, yet the complex world Arabic-speaking immigrants have created
there is barely visible on the landscape of ethnic America. In this volume,
Nabeel Abraham and Andrew Shryock bring 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, while over fifty photographs provide a
backdrop of vivid, often unexpected, images. Panoramic and highly nuanced,
Arab Detroit shows
the extent to which popular notions of tolerance and inclusion have not
been applied to Arabs in Detroit and charts the alternative routes by which
Arabs enter and influence the American mainstream. |
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"This book is by far the best on the topic. While there have been studies
of Detroit and Arab Americans generally, there is no such in-depth analysis,
from so many angles (food, music, religion, identity, politics, etc.) and
on so many different Arab ethnic groups."
—Philip Kayal, Seton Hall University
Nabeel Abraham teaches anthropology at Henry Ford Community College in Dearborn,
Michigan,where he also serves as director of the Honors Program.
Andrew Shryock is assistant professor of anthropology
at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. |
