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Homeland Insecurity : The Arab American and Muslim American Experience After 9/11 by Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer;Cainkar, Louise is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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In the aftermath of 9/11, many Arab and Muslim Americans came under intense scrutiny by federal and local authorities, as well as their own neighbors, on the chance that they might know, support, or actually be terrorists. As Louise Cainkar observes, even U.S.-born Arabs and Muslims were portrayed as outsiders, an image that was amplified in the months after the attacks. She argues that 9/11 did not create anti-Arab and anti-Muslim suspicion; rather, their socially constructed images and social and political exclusion long before these attacks created an environment in which misunderstanding and hostility could thrive and the government could defend its use of profiling. Combining analysis and ethnography, Homeland Insecurity provides an intimate view of what it means to be an Arab or a Muslim in a country set on edge by the worst terrorist attack in its history. Focusing on the metropolitan Chicago area, Cainkar conducted more than a hundred research interviews and five in-depth oral histories. In this, the most comprehensive ethnographic study of the post-9/11 period for American Arabs and Muslims, native-born and immigrant Palestinians, Egyptians, Lebanese, Iraqis, Yemenis, Suda

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Author

Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer;Cainkar, Louise

Publisher

Russell Sage Foundation Publications

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780871540539

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Islam, Sociology, History

Rating

3.77 / 5 (10 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14