Arab and Muslims Americans

Annotated Bibliography
BSHS/345
Week Four
Kenneth Fishman

Curtis, R. H. (1998). Arab and Muslim Stereotyping in

American Popular Culture. The Washington Report on Middle East
Affairs, XVII (7), 123 Retrieved from.
http://search.proquest.com/docview/218788534?accounted=458
This article talks about that Americans con not distinguish
between the Indo-European Iranians and the Semitic Arabs.
Nearly 40 percent of American Muslims are African American but
the media tends to identify them all with Louis Farrakhans radical
and highly publized Nation of Islam. Yet says Shaheen, according
to the Washington Post Franklins Nation of Islam is a tiny
splinter group with less than twenty thousand members.

Jamal, A. (2005). Mosques, Collective Identity and Gender

Difference Among Arab American Muslims. Journal of Middle East
Womens Studies 1 (1), 53-78. Retrieved from.
http://search.proquest.com/docview/222279530?accounted?=458
This article talks about Arab Muslim women that have immigrated
to America and that they are having difficulties for mainstream
political participation in the United States. They have to overcome
numerous barriers such as, acquiring language, interacting with
and in American culture, and reconciling both with homeland and
American identities in their daily lives. Basically political
engagement among Arab Muslim men and women are not solely
constricted by factors of gender but are mediated by specific
pattern of active engagement.