Arabs in the Americas :  interdisciplinary essays on the Arab diaspora / 
edited by Darcy A. Zabel. 
 - New York :  Peter Lang,  c2006. 
 - viii, 236 p. ;  23 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/>Introduction: 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0820481114 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780820481111 (pbk. : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2006022704 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Arabs--History.--America<br/>Arabs--Migrations--History.<br/>Arabs--Social conditions.--America<br/>Arabs--Intellectual life.--America<br/>Ethnicity--America.<br/>Stereotype (Psychology)--America.<br/>Arabes--Historia.--América<br/>Arabes--Migraciones--Historia.<br/>Arabes--America--Condiciones Sociales.<br/>Arabes--La vida intelectual.--America<br/>American literature--Arab American authors--History and criticism.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>America--Ethnic relations.<br/>America--Intellectual life.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>403 DS 223  / A658 2006 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>305.892