Race and Arab Americans Before and After 9/11 : From Invisible Citizens to Visible Subjects

Figures and Tables vii Acknowledgments ix Contributors xi ONE Introduction Arab Americans and U.S. Racial Formations NADINE NABER 1 TW0 Thinking Outside the Box Arabs and Race in the United States LOUISE CAINKAR 46 THREE The Moral Analogies of Race Arab American Identity, Color Politics, and the Limits of Racialized Citizenship ANDREW SHRYOCK 81 FOUR Civil Liberties and the Otherization of Arab and Muslim Americans AMANEY JAMAL 114 FIVE "Whiteness" and the Arab Immigrant Experience SAWSAN ABDULRAHIM 131 SIX Strange Fruit? Syrian Immigrants, Extralegal Violence, and Racial Formation in the United States SARAH M. A. GUALTIERI 147 SEVEN Grandmothers, Grape Leaves, and Kahlil Gibran Writing Race in Anthologies of Arab American Literature MICHELLE HARTMAN 170 EIGHT The Prime-Time Plight of the Arab Muslim American after 9/11 Configurations of Race and Nation in TV Dramas EVELYN ALSULTANY 204 NINE Arab Americans and Muslim Americans in the New York Times, Before and After 9/11 SUAD JOSEPH AND BENJAMIN D'HARLINGUE, WITH ALVIN KA HIN WONG 229 TEN "Look, Mohammed the Terrorist Is Coming!" Cultural Racism, Nation-Based Racism, and the Intersectionality of Oppressions after 9/12 NADINE NABER 276 ELEVEN Discrimination and Identity Formation in a Post-9/11 Era A Comparison of Muslim and Christian Arab Americans JEN'NAN GHAZAL READ 305 TWELVE Conclusion Arab American Racialization AMANEY JAMAL 318 Works Cited 327 Index 357