Louise Cainkar
Biographic Data
| ID | 219035 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Louise Cainkar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Louise |
| FAMILY NAME | Cainkar |
| SIGNATURE | CAINKAR L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Marquette University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 51 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Racial control under the guise of terror threat: Policing of US Muslim, Arab, and SWANA communities
Using an analysis of U.S. government policies that have had high impacts on the personal safety and freedom of movement and expression of Arabs, Muslims, and others of Southwest Asian and North African (SWANA) origins living in or seeking to migrate to the US, this article argues that these policies mirror in significant ways a range of policies used currently and historically to police and control Black and brown bodies. Specifically, the articl…
Palestine—and Empire—Are Central to Arab American/SWANA Studies
Taking the small number of ethnographic studies of Palestinian communities in North America as its problematic, this article situates that predicament in the larger context of decades of academic silencing of Arab American and SWANA (Southwest Asia and North Africa) studies, efforts that represent but one component of a larger political project to quash pro-Palestinian activism. Abetted by the absence of a racial category, scholars continue to fa…
Suspect Communities: Anti-Muslim Racism and the Domestic War on Terror
Taking on Hate
Other| November 01 2019 Taking on Hate: Muslim Women Build a Community-Driven Hate Watch Louise Cainkar; Louise Cainkar LOUISE CAINKAR is associate professor of sociology and of social welfare and justice and directs Peace Studies and Arab/Muslim American Studies at Marquette University. She is author of Homeland Insecurity: The Arab American and Muslim American Experience after 9/11 (2009) and numerous articles and is an Association for Middle E…
Fluid Terror Threat: A Genealogy of the Racialization of Arab, Muslim, and South Asian Americans
The Social Construction of Difference and the Arab American Experience
THEORIES OF IMMIGRANT integration are a tough fit when it comes to Arab Americans. Arabs who migrated to the United States in the first decades of the twentieth century held structural positions and faced barriers of prejudice and discrimination largely similar to those of white ethnics (especially Italians). 1 Although they were barred from a broad range of institutions run by mainstream whites, they settled in urban and rural areas, ran busines…
Janet (Lippman) Abu-Lughod 1928-2013
Abu-Lughod made significant contributions to scholarship on the Middle East
Learning to Be Muslim-Transnationally
This essay discusses the religious upbringing experiences and reflections upon them articulated by 53 Muslim American youth who were interviewed as part of a larger sociological study of Arab American teenagers living transnationally. On extended sojourns in their parents' homelands, these youth-most were born in the US although some migrated to the US at a young age-were taken "back home" to Palestine and Jordan by their parents so they could le…
Homeland insecurity: The Arab American and Muslim American experience after 9/11
xii, 325 p. : 24 cm
Using Sociological Theory to Defuse Anti-Arab/Muslim Nativism and Accelerate Social Integration
For three days after the 9/11 attacks, hundreds of angry suburbanites gathered to surround and lay siege to the bounded neighborhood hosting the Mosque Foundation in Bridgeview, Illinois. I concluded from a two and one-half year ethnographic study of the post-9/11 experience of Arab Muslims in metropolitan Chicago that the underlying sociological conditions giving rise to these post-9/11 events were racialized and nativist understandings held by …
The Social Construction of Difference and the Arab American Experience
Space and Place in the Metropolis: Arabs and Muslims Seeking Safety
The definitive version is available at www.blackwell-synergy.com NOT THE PUBLISHED VERSION; this is the author’s final, peer-reviewed manuscript. The published version may be accessed by following the link in the citation at the bottom of the page. All photos by Louise Cainkar, except as indicated. Photos may not be used without permission
Targeting Arab/Muslim/South Asian Americans: Criminalization and Cultural Citizenship
In this essay, we further explore the responses of Arab and South Asian Muslim communities to the War on Terror, and ask whether these responses reveal alliance-building and pan-ethnic identification. Do the targeted groups, now portrayed as monolithic, find solidarity with each other, and if so, what are the bases for their sense of affinity. These questions force us to consider the deeper issues of pan-ethnic and political affiliation that high…
Post 9/11 Domestic Policies Affecting U. S. Arabs and Muslims: A Brief Review
Research Article| May 01 2004 Post 9/11 Domestic Policies Affecting U. S. Arabs and Muslims: A Brief Review Louise Cainkar Louise Cainkar Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2004) 24 (1): 247–251. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-24-1-247 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Louise Cainkar; Post 9/11 Domestic Policies Affectin…
Introduction: Global Impacts of September 11
Research Article| May 01 2004 Introduction: Global Impacts of September 11 Louise Cainkar Louise Cainkar Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2004) 24 (1): 157–160. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-24-1-157 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Louise Cainkar; Introduction: Global Impacts of September 11. Comparative Studies of …
Migration as a Method of Coping with Turbulence Among Palestinians
Migration is one way individuals and families cope with economic uncertainty and political turbulence. Palestinians have used migration as a means to find economic stability and opportunities for their children since 1948, due to continuous strife in and displacement from their homeland. Built on earlier studies, this article discusses the findings of in-depth-interviews and focus groups with low-income Palestinians from Amman, Jordan now living …
No Longer Invisible: Arab and Muslim Exclusion after September 11
Crii' nlike other ascribed and self-described "people of color" in the United States, Arabs are often hidden under the Caucasian label, if not forgotten altogether.But eleven months after September 11, 2001, the Arab-American is no longer invisible.Whether traveling, driving, working, walking through a neighborhood or sitting in their homes, Arabs in America-citizens and non-citizens-are now subject to special scrutiny in American society.The vio…
Women and Gender in Middle East Studies: A Roundtable Discussion
Ellen Fleischmann, Louise Cainkar, Miriam Cooke, Susanne Dahlgren, Rhoda Kannaneh, Akram Khater, Rosemary Sayigh, Gabriele vom Bruck, Women and Gender in Middle East Studies: A Roundtable Discussion, Middle East Report, No. 205, Middle East Studies Networks: The Politics of a Field (Oct. - Dec., 1997), pp. 30-32
Gender in Crisis: Women and the Palestinian Resistance Movement
This study explores the role of politically active Palestinian women in the Lebanese Resistance Movement. The author describes the types of work involved, the organizations these women have founded, and the changing nature of gender roles set against an intense and sustained crisis
Letters
A Critique of the U.S. State Department's 1986 Country Report on Human Rights Practices in the 1967 Israeli-Occupied Palestinian Territories
Louise Cainkar, Jan Abu-Shakrah, A Critique of the U.S. State Department's 1986 Country Report on Human Rights Practices in the 1967 Israeli-Occupied Palestinian Territories, Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol. 17, No. 1 (Autumn, 1987), pp. 89-96
A Critique of the U.S. State Department's 1986 Country Report on Human Rights Practices in the 1967 Israeli-Occupied Palestinian Territories
(1987). A Critique of the U.S. State Department's 1986 Country Report on Human Rights Practices in the 1967 Israeli-Occupied Palestinian Territories. Journal of Palestine Studies: Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 89-96
The Social Construction of Difference and the Arab American Experience
Targeting Arab/Muslim/South Asian Americans: Criminalization and Cultural Citizenship
In this essay, we further explore the responses of Arab and South Asian Muslim communities to the War on Terror, and ask whether these responses reveal alliance-building and pan-ethnic identification. Do the targeted groups, now portrayed as monolithic, find solidarity with each other, and if so, what are the bases for their sense of affinity. These questions force us to consider the deeper issues of pan-ethnic and political affiliation that high…
Fluid Terror Threat: A Genealogy of the Racialization of Arab, Muslim, and South Asian Americans
Palestine—and Empire—Are Central to Arab American/SWANA Studies
Taking the small number of ethnographic studies of Palestinian communities in North America as its problematic, this article situates that predicament in the larger context of decades of academic silencing of Arab American and SWANA (Southwest Asia and North Africa) studies, efforts that represent but one component of a larger political project to quash pro-Palestinian activism. Abetted by the absence of a racial category, scholars continue to fa…
Introduction: Global Impacts of September 11
Research Article| May 01 2004 Introduction: Global Impacts of September 11 Louise Cainkar Louise Cainkar Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2004) 24 (1): 157–160. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-24-1-157 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Louise Cainkar; Introduction: Global Impacts of September 11. Comparative Studies of …
Migration as a Method of Coping with Turbulence Among Palestinians
Migration is one way individuals and families cope with economic uncertainty and political turbulence. Palestinians have used migration as a means to find economic stability and opportunities for their children since 1948, due to continuous strife in and displacement from their homeland. Built on earlier studies, this article discusses the findings of in-depth-interviews and focus groups with low-income Palestinians from Amman, Jordan now living …
Letters
A Critique of the U.S. State Department's 1986 Country Report on Human Rights Practices in the 1967 Israeli-Occupied Palestinian Territories
Louise Cainkar, Jan Abu-Shakrah, A Critique of the U.S. State Department's 1986 Country Report on Human Rights Practices in the 1967 Israeli-Occupied Palestinian Territories, Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol. 17, No. 1 (Autumn, 1987), pp. 89-96
A Critique of the U.S. State Department's 1986 Country Report on Human Rights Practices in the 1967 Israeli-Occupied Palestinian Territories
(1987). A Critique of the U.S. State Department's 1986 Country Report on Human Rights Practices in the 1967 Israeli-Occupied Palestinian Territories. Journal of Palestine Studies: Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 89-96
Gender in Crisis: Women and the Palestinian Resistance Movement
This study explores the role of politically active Palestinian women in the Lebanese Resistance Movement. The author describes the types of work involved, the organizations these women have founded, and the changing nature of gender roles set against an intense and sustained crisis
Women and Gender in Middle East Studies: A Roundtable Discussion
Ellen Fleischmann, Louise Cainkar, Miriam Cooke, Susanne Dahlgren, Rhoda Kannaneh, Akram Khater, Rosemary Sayigh, Gabriele vom Bruck, Women and Gender in Middle East Studies: A Roundtable Discussion, Middle East Report, No. 205, Middle East Studies Networks: The Politics of a Field (Oct. - Dec., 1997), pp. 30-32
No Longer Invisible: Arab and Muslim Exclusion after September 11
Crii' nlike other ascribed and self-described "people of color" in the United States, Arabs are often hidden under the Caucasian label, if not forgotten altogether.But eleven months after September 11, 2001, the Arab-American is no longer invisible.Whether traveling, driving, working, walking through a neighborhood or sitting in their homes, Arabs in America-citizens and non-citizens-are now subject to special scrutiny in American society.The vio…
Post 9/11 Domestic Policies Affecting U. S. Arabs and Muslims: A Brief Review
Research Article| May 01 2004 Post 9/11 Domestic Policies Affecting U. S. Arabs and Muslims: A Brief Review Louise Cainkar Louise Cainkar Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2004) 24 (1): 247–251. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-24-1-247 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Louise Cainkar; Post 9/11 Domestic Policies Affectin…
Introduction: Global Impacts of September 11
Research Article| May 01 2004 Introduction: Global Impacts of September 11 Louise Cainkar Louise Cainkar Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2004) 24 (1): 157–160. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-24-1-157 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Louise Cainkar; Introduction: Global Impacts of September 11. Comparative Studies of …
Migration as a Method of Coping with Turbulence Among Palestinians
Migration is one way individuals and families cope with economic uncertainty and political turbulence. Palestinians have used migration as a means to find economic stability and opportunities for their children since 1948, due to continuous strife in and displacement from their homeland. Built on earlier studies, this article discusses the findings of in-depth-interviews and focus groups with low-income Palestinians from Amman, Jordan now living …
Space and Place in the Metropolis: Arabs and Muslims Seeking Safety
The definitive version is available at www.blackwell-synergy.com NOT THE PUBLISHED VERSION; this is the author’s final, peer-reviewed manuscript. The published version may be accessed by following the link in the citation at the bottom of the page. All photos by Louise Cainkar, except as indicated. Photos may not be used without permission
Targeting Arab/Muslim/South Asian Americans: Criminalization and Cultural Citizenship
In this essay, we further explore the responses of Arab and South Asian Muslim communities to the War on Terror, and ask whether these responses reveal alliance-building and pan-ethnic identification. Do the targeted groups, now portrayed as monolithic, find solidarity with each other, and if so, what are the bases for their sense of affinity. These questions force us to consider the deeper issues of pan-ethnic and political affiliation that high…
The Social Construction of Difference and the Arab American Experience
Using Sociological Theory to Defuse Anti-Arab/Muslim Nativism and Accelerate Social Integration
For three days after the 9/11 attacks, hundreds of angry suburbanites gathered to surround and lay siege to the bounded neighborhood hosting the Mosque Foundation in Bridgeview, Illinois. I concluded from a two and one-half year ethnographic study of the post-9/11 experience of Arab Muslims in metropolitan Chicago that the underlying sociological conditions giving rise to these post-9/11 events were racialized and nativist understandings held by …
Homeland insecurity: The Arab American and Muslim American experience after 9/11
xii, 325 p. : 24 cm
Janet (Lippman) Abu-Lughod 1928-2013
Abu-Lughod made significant contributions to scholarship on the Middle East
Learning to Be Muslim-Transnationally
This essay discusses the religious upbringing experiences and reflections upon them articulated by 53 Muslim American youth who were interviewed as part of a larger sociological study of Arab American teenagers living transnationally. On extended sojourns in their parents' homelands, these youth-most were born in the US although some migrated to the US at a young age-were taken "back home" to Palestine and Jordan by their parents so they could le…
The Social Construction of Difference and the Arab American Experience
THEORIES OF IMMIGRANT integration are a tough fit when it comes to Arab Americans. Arabs who migrated to the United States in the first decades of the twentieth century held structural positions and faced barriers of prejudice and discrimination largely similar to those of white ethnics (especially Italians). 1 Although they were barred from a broad range of institutions run by mainstream whites, they settled in urban and rural areas, ran busines…
Fluid Terror Threat: A Genealogy of the Racialization of Arab, Muslim, and South Asian Americans
Taking on Hate
Other| November 01 2019 Taking on Hate: Muslim Women Build a Community-Driven Hate Watch Louise Cainkar; Louise Cainkar LOUISE CAINKAR is associate professor of sociology and of social welfare and justice and directs Peace Studies and Arab/Muslim American Studies at Marquette University. She is author of Homeland Insecurity: The Arab American and Muslim American Experience after 9/11 (2009) and numerous articles and is an Association for Middle E…
Palestine—and Empire—Are Central to Arab American/SWANA Studies
Taking the small number of ethnographic studies of Palestinian communities in North America as its problematic, this article situates that predicament in the larger context of decades of academic silencing of Arab American and SWANA (Southwest Asia and North Africa) studies, efforts that represent but one component of a larger political project to quash pro-Palestinian activism. Abetted by the absence of a racial category, scholars continue to fa…
Suspect Communities: Anti-Muslim Racism and the Domestic War on Terror
Racial control under the guise of terror threat: Policing of US Muslim, Arab, and SWANA communities
Using an analysis of U.S. government policies that have had high impacts on the personal safety and freedom of movement and expression of Arabs, Muslims, and others of Southwest Asian and North African (SWANA) origins living in or seeking to migrate to the US, this article argues that these policies mirror in significant ways a range of policies used currently and historically to police and control Black and brown bodies. Specifically, the articl…
Political science (20 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Law (13 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (11 works) · History (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Race, History, and American Society (6 works) · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence (6 works) · History (5 works)