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LEADER: 02913cam a22003854a 4500
001 2006022704
003 DLC
005 20070117082908.0
008 060712s2006 nyu b 000 0deng
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050 00 $aE29.A73$bA73 2006
082 00 $a305.892/707$222
245 00 $aArabs in the Americas :$binterdisciplinary essays on the Arab diaspora /$cedited by Darcy A. Zabel.
260 $aNew York :$bPeter Lang,$cc2006.
300 $aviii, 236 p. ;$c23 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 0 $aIntroduction: The Arab diaspora in the Americas, Latin America, the United States, and Canada / Darcy A. Zabel -- pt. 1. Arriving in the Americas -- The passage from west to south : Arabs between the Old and New World / Carol Fadda-Conrey -- Margins of memory on the Rua 25 de Marco : constructing the Syrian-Lebanese past in Sao Paulo, Brazil / John Tofik Karam -- The Syrian world in the New World : the contextual beginnings of Arab American literature and the part it played in identity formation / Hani Ismaeal Elayyan -- pt. 2. The experience of the Americas -- Multiple identities : Lebanese Arab Christians in the American West / Kirk Scott -- Stereotypes, popular culture, and school curriculum : how Arab American Muslim high school students perceive and cope with being the "other" / Nader Ayish -- Arabs in Honduras : immigration, integration, and the Palestinian presence / Sharon Lopez and Katharine Speer -- pt. 3. Assessing the Americas -- Gazing east from the Americas : assessing the cultural significance of Arab American literature / Steven Salaita -- Belly dancing for liberation : a critical interpretation of reclamation rhetoric in the American belly dance community / Amira Jarmakani -- Not just Disney : destructive stereotypes of Arabs in children's literature / Carolyn Speer Schmidt -- pt. 4. After 9/11 -- Arab, Canadian, Muslim? : a question of identity / Omar Alghabar -- Apologies and amnesias : remembering and responding after 9/11 / Deirdre King Hainsworth -- Being Arab : growing up Canadian / Rula Sharkawi.
650 0 $aArabs$zAmerica$xHistory.
650 0 $aArabs$xMigrations$xHistory.
650 0 $aArabs$zAmerica$xSocial conditions.
650 0 $aArabs$zAmerica$xIntellectual life.
650 0 $aEthnicity$zAmerica.
650 0 $aStereotype (Psychology)$zAmerica.
651 0 $aAmerica$xEthnic relations.
650 0 $aAmerican literature$xArab American authors$xHistory and criticism.
651 0 $aAmerica$xIntellectual life.
700 1 $aZabel, Darcy.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0617/2006022704.html