Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Half-title
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contributors
  • On Margins and Mainstreams
  • PART 1 QUALITIES/QUANTITIES
  • Introduction
  • 8 Houses from the Birthplace of Henry Ford
  • Building the Infrastructure of Arab American Identity in Detroit A Short History of ACCESS and the Community It Serves A Demographic Portrait of Arab Detroit
  • PART 2 WORK
  • Introduction
  • You Only Exist Inside Me
  • In the Tenth Year of War
  • Dumb like a Fox
  • Growing up in Detroit An Immigrant Grocer's Daughter Fandy
  • Behind the Bulletproof Glass Iraqi Chaldean Store Ownership in Metropolitan Detroit
  • There I Am Again
  • On the Road with Bob Peddling in the Early Sixties
  • PART 3 RELIGION
  • Introduction
  • What They Did
  • The American Journey of a Chaldean from Iraq Egyptian Copts in Detroit Ethnic Community and Long-Distance Nationalism
  • Finding the Straight Path A Conversation with Mohsen and Lila Amen about Faith, Life, and Family in Dearborn
  • Arab Detroit's American Mosque
  • PART 4 POLITICS Introduction
  • Aliya Hassan
  • Important Things to an Eight Year Old For Haji Aliya Hassan
  • After Karbala Iraqi Refugees in Detroit
  • Politics, Pragmatism, and the Arab Vote A Conversation with Maya Berry
  • Status Refugee
  • PART 5 LIFE JOURNEYS