Arab American Studies

Discover key titles in Arab American Studies, selected by RCL editors. Resources for College Libraries (RCL) features core titles for academic libraries, curated by Choice/ACRL subject specialists. In Syndetics Unbound, RCL Librarians recommend a selection of the 90,000+ titles available at rclweb.net.

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The Making of Arab Americans From Syrian Nationalism to U.S. Citizenship
Bawardi, Hani J.
While conventional wisdom points to the Arab-Israeli War of 1967 as the gateway for the founding of the first Arab American national political organization, such advocacy in fact began with the Syrian nationalist movement, which emerged from immigration trends at the turn of the last century....
Muslims of the heartland : how Syrian immigrants made a home in the American Midwest
Curtis, Edward E., IV
Winner of the 2023 Evelyn Shakir Non-Fiction Book Award from the Arab American National Museum Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2023 Uncovers the surprising history of Muslim life in the early American Midwest The American Midwest is often thought of...
Contemporary Arab-American literature : transnational reconfigurations of citizenship and belonging
Fadda-Conrey, Carol
The last couple of decades have witnessed a flourishing of Arab-American literature across multiple genres. Yet, increased interest in this literature is ironically paralleled by a prevalent bias against Arabs and Muslims that portrays their long presence in the US as a recent and unwelcome...
We too sing America : South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh immigrants shape our multiracial future
Iyer, Deepa
Many of us can recall the targeting of South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh people in the wake of 9/11. We may be less aware, however, of the ongoing racism directed against these groups in the past decade and a half. In We Too Sing America, nationally renowned activist Deepa...
Arab Americans in Film From Hollywood and Egyptian Stereotypes to Self-Representation
Mahdi, Waleed F.
Selected for Arab America's Best Arab American Books of 2020 list. It comes as little surprise that Hollywood films have traditionally stereotyped Arab Americans, but how are Arab Americans portrayed in Arab films, and just as importantly, how are they portrayed in the works...
Handbook of Arab American psychology
Amer, Mona M.
The Handbook of Arab American Psychology is the first major publication to comprehensively discuss the Arab American ethnic group from a lens that is primarily psychological. This edited book contains a comprehensive review of the cutting-edge research related to Arab Americans and offers a...

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