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Arab New York - Politics and Community in the Everyday Lives of Arab Americans (Hardcover)
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Arab New York - Politics and Community in the Everyday Lives of Arab Americans (Hardcover)
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From Bay Ridge to Astoria, explore political action in Arab New
York Arab Americans are a numerically small proportion of the US
population yet have been the target of a disproportionate amount of
political scrutiny. Most non-Arab Americans know little about what
life is actually like within Arab communities and in organizations
run by and for the Arab community. Big political questions are
central to the Arab American experience-how are politics integrated
into Arab Americans' everyday lives? In Arab New York, Emily Regan
Wills looks outside the traditional ideas of political engagement
to see the importance of politics in Arab American communities in
New York. Regan Wills focuses on the spaces of public and communal
life in the five boroughs of New York, which are home to the third
largest concentration of people of Arab descent in the US. Many
different ethnic and religious groups form the overarching Arab
American identity, and their political engagement in the US is
complex. Regan Wills examines the way that daily practice and
speech form the foundation of political action and meaning. Drawing
on interviews and participant observation with activist groups and
community organizations, Regan Wills explores topics such as Arab
American identity for children, relationships with Arab and
non-Arab Americans, young women as leaders in the Muslim and Arab
American community, support and activism for Palestine, and
revolutionary change in Egypt and Yemen. Ultimately, she claims
that in order to understand Arab American political engagement and
see how political action develops in Arab American contexts, one
must understand Arab Americans in their own terms of political and
public engagement. They are, Regan Wills argues, profoundly engaged
with everyday politics and political questions that don't match up
to conventional politics. Arab New York draws from rich
ethnographic data and presents a narrative, compelling picture of a
community engaging with politics on its own terms. Written to
expand the existing literature on Arab Americans to include more
direct engagement with politics and discourse, Arab New York also
serves as an appropriate introduction to Arab American communities,
ethnic dynamics in New York City and elsewhere in urban America,
and the concept of everyday politics.
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