"Not Black. Not white. Never quite fitting in. Always on the edge"--Joanna Kadi, Food for Our Grandmothers (xvi)
Arabs in the United States fit uneasily into a racial schema that identifies individuals and groups as either "black" or "white." The many studies on Arab American ethnicity and racial formation show that historically Arab Americans were first considered "not white," then "not quite white," then later legally "became white." This study explores the vexed notion of ...
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