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4.5
This book is seminal in Arab American Studies and a significant contribution to Ethnic Studies. The book is compromised of an excellent introduction by the late Michael Suleiman and twenty chapters, each written by a well-known scholar in the field. These chapters are divided into six sections: profiles of specific communities (with case studies), Arabs and the American legal system, youth and family, health and welfare issues, political activism and Arab-American identity negotiations. The book covers most issues concerning Arab Americans – who are both Muslim and Christian, American and Canadian. There are a few outstanding chapters: one by Louise Cainkar, discussing Arab immigrants in Chicago, another by Helen Samhan titled on the race classification of Arab Americans and the another by Theresa Saliba on Arab Americans in academia and activism illustrating how and when Arab American academics are shut out of the conversations for not being acknowledged as minorities.