Bringing the wealthy terrain of Arab American histories to endure on conceptualizations of "race" within the united states, this groudbreaking quantity fills a severe hole within the box of ethnic experiences. not like such a lot immigrant groups who've both been continually marked as "non-white" or were marked as "non white" after which, turned "white," Arab american citizens have traditionally been rendered "white" and feature more and more come be visible as "non-white." this day, Arab americans are "officially" categorized as white by means of the U.S. census and "unofficially" represented as varied than, and not as good as "whites" inside of U.S. country guidelines and U.S. pop culture.
This e-book highlights emergent conversations at the exact ways in which "race" matters--or doesn't matter--to the examine of Arab American histories. members handle questions reminiscent of: what's the dating among U.S. imperialism in Arab homelands and anti-Arab racism within the lives of Arab americans? what's the courting among faith, category, gender, and anti-Arab racism? what's the value of whiteness reports to Arab American reports? Transcending multiculturalist discourses on race and ethnicity after September eleven that experience easily "added on" the class "Arab American" to the panorama of U.S. ethnic and racial reports, this quantity locates September eleven as a turning element, instead of a starting, within the background of Arab American engagements with race, multiculturalism, and Americanization.