Arab Detroit: From Margin to Mainstream (Great Lakes Books Series)

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Metropolitan Detroit is home to probably the most largest, most diverse Arab communities out of doors the Middle East, yet the complex world Arabic-speaking immigrants have created there may be barely visible on the landscape of ethnic The us. 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. The book goes at the back of the bulletproof glass in Iraqi Chaldean liquor stores. It explores the role of women in a Sunni mosque and the place of nationalist politics in a Coptic church. It follows the careers of wedding singers, Arabic calligraphers,restaurant owners, and pastry chefs. It examines the agendas of Shia Muslim activists and Washington-based lobbyists and looks at the intimate politics of marriage, circle of relatives honor, and adolescent rise up. Memoirs and poems by Lebanese, Chaldean, Yemeni, and Palestinian writers anchor the book in personal experience, whilst over fifty photographs provide a backdrop of vivid, frequently unexpected, images. In their efforts to represent an ethnic/immigrant community that may be flourishing on the margins of pluralist discourse, the contributors to this book break new ground in the study of identity politics, transnationalism, and diaspora cultures.

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