Homeland Insecurity : The Arab American and Muslim American Experience After 9/11 /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Cainkar, Louise
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Russell Sage Foundation, 2009.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
National security > Social aspects > United States.
Civil defense > Social aspects > United States.
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 > Influence.
Muslims > United States > Social conditions.
Arab Americans > Social conditions.
United States > Ethnic relations.
United States > Race relations.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Five oral histories
  • The social construction of the Arab (and Muslim) American
  • Whose homeland security?
  • The security spotlight and the conduct of everyday life
  • Hate acts, local mobilizations, and the crisis point
  • Gendered nativism, boundary setting, and cultural sniping : women as embodiments of the perceived cultural threat of Islam.

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