Sally Howell
Biographic Data
| ID | 3637827 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sally Howell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sally |
| FAMILY NAME | Howell |
| SIGNATURE | HOWELL S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Mosqueing the Marketplace
Hamtramck, Michigan, is the first Muslim-majority city in the US, has the nation's first all Muslim city council, and likely boasts the highest number of mosques per capita as well. Yet as recently as the 1970s, Hamtramck was the center of the Polish diaspora, and was home instead to the nation's highest concentration of bars. Muslim entrepreneurs, primarily from Yemen and Bangladesh, stand poised to revitalize Hamtramck's economy by investing in…
Southend Struggles
This paper explores political struggles that took place in the Southend of Dearborn in the 1970s that coincided with the rise of Arab nationalist and Islamic movements in Michigan and linked these interests to those of Arab-American activists involved in the civil rights movement, labor organizing, and other campaigns for social and economic justice. These struggles launched the careers of activists who cooperated in the 1970s and 1980s to establ…
Old Islam in Detroit
Detroit, Michigan, is home to several of the nation’s oldest, most diverse Muslim communities. In the early 1900s, thousands of Muslims from Eastern Europe, the Ottoman Empire, and British India built the nation’s first mosque in Detroit. By the 1930s, new Islam-oriented social movements, like the Nation of Islam, were taking root among African Americans. By the 1950s, Albanians, Arabs, African Americans, and South Asians all had mosques and reli…
Citizenship and Crisis
ModernizingMansaf
Mansaf is the national feast dish of Jordan. As such, it is commonly associated with a traditional culture based on an agro-pastoral lifestyle in which meat and yogurt were readily available and hosts had ample time to attend to the needs of guests. This nostalgic ideal is not representative of contemporary Jordanian experience, yet mansaf remains—especially for those of Bedouin origin—the most appropriate measure of a host's respect for “his” gu…
Cracking Down on Diaspora
[Note to Readers: This essay was submitted to Anthropological Quarterly on March 14, 2003. Since then, the U.S. has invaded Iraq, deposed Saddam Hussein, and commenced its military occupation of that country. We have decided not to update our arguments, largely because recent events support our original conclusions in ways we had not entirely anticipated. In a brief postscript, we will try to explain how.] Introduction It is hard now to portray A…
Ever a Guest in Our House”
The literature on Jordan is awash in studies of the history, politics, and possible futures of the Hashemite family. In a polity so closely identified with its ruling dynasty, one would be surprised if this fixation did not prevail. More curious to the anthropologist is the extent to which the scholarly attention lavished on the Hashemites has centered on the rather obvious fact that they rule, but has given less concern to the fact that they rul…
Cultural Interventions
Diaspora 9:1 2000 Cultural Interventions: Arab American Aesthetics between the Transnational and the Ethnic1 Sally Howell University of Michigan [Black American writers in Europe] begin as Afro-Americans, but they are changed into something else which evades that label. Whether their experience ofexile is enforced or chosen, temporary or . . . permanent, time and again they articulate their desire to escape the bonds ofethnicity, national identif…
Picturing women, class, and community in Arab Detroit
This essay explores the on‐going struggle to reveal and conceal the image of Eva Habib, an Arab American woman who worked in a Detroit factory and was photographed in her coveralls circa 1925. Eva's image has been a source of controversy in Detroit's Arab community since it first became public in the 1980s. I chart the evolution of this controversy, examine the interests of the parties involved, and draw conclusions about how this controversial i…
Cracking Down on Diaspora
[Note to Readers: This essay was submitted to Anthropological Quarterly on March 14, 2003. Since then, the U.S. has invaded Iraq, deposed Saddam Hussein, and commenced its military occupation of that country. We have decided not to update our arguments, largely because recent events support our original conclusions in ways we had not entirely anticipated. In a brief postscript, we will try to explain how.] Introduction It is hard now to portray A…
Ever a Guest in Our House”
The literature on Jordan is awash in studies of the history, politics, and possible futures of the Hashemite family. In a polity so closely identified with its ruling dynasty, one would be surprised if this fixation did not prevail. More curious to the anthropologist is the extent to which the scholarly attention lavished on the Hashemites has centered on the rather obvious fact that they rule, but has given less concern to the fact that they rul…
ModernizingMansaf
Mansaf is the national feast dish of Jordan. As such, it is commonly associated with a traditional culture based on an agro-pastoral lifestyle in which meat and yogurt were readily available and hosts had ample time to attend to the needs of guests. This nostalgic ideal is not representative of contemporary Jordanian experience, yet mansaf remains—especially for those of Bedouin origin—the most appropriate measure of a host's respect for “his” gu…
Picturing women, class, and community in Arab Detroit
This essay explores the on‐going struggle to reveal and conceal the image of Eva Habib, an Arab American woman who worked in a Detroit factory and was photographed in her coveralls circa 1925. Eva's image has been a source of controversy in Detroit's Arab community since it first became public in the 1980s. I chart the evolution of this controversy, examine the interests of the parties involved, and draw conclusions about how this controversial i…
Picturing women, class, and community in Arab Detroit
This essay explores the on‐going struggle to reveal and conceal the image of Eva Habib, an Arab American woman who worked in a Detroit factory and was photographed in her coveralls circa 1925. Eva's image has been a source of controversy in Detroit's Arab community since it first became public in the 1980s. I chart the evolution of this controversy, examine the interests of the parties involved, and draw conclusions about how this controversial i…
Cultural Interventions
Diaspora 9:1 2000 Cultural Interventions: Arab American Aesthetics between the Transnational and the Ethnic1 Sally Howell University of Michigan [Black American writers in Europe] begin as Afro-Americans, but they are changed into something else which evades that label. Whether their experience ofexile is enforced or chosen, temporary or . . . permanent, time and again they articulate their desire to escape the bonds ofethnicity, national identif…
Ever a Guest in Our House”
The literature on Jordan is awash in studies of the history, politics, and possible futures of the Hashemite family. In a polity so closely identified with its ruling dynasty, one would be surprised if this fixation did not prevail. More curious to the anthropologist is the extent to which the scholarly attention lavished on the Hashemites has centered on the rather obvious fact that they rule, but has given less concern to the fact that they rul…
ModernizingMansaf
Mansaf is the national feast dish of Jordan. As such, it is commonly associated with a traditional culture based on an agro-pastoral lifestyle in which meat and yogurt were readily available and hosts had ample time to attend to the needs of guests. This nostalgic ideal is not representative of contemporary Jordanian experience, yet mansaf remains—especially for those of Bedouin origin—the most appropriate measure of a host's respect for “his” gu…
Cracking Down on Diaspora
[Note to Readers: This essay was submitted to Anthropological Quarterly on March 14, 2003. Since then, the U.S. has invaded Iraq, deposed Saddam Hussein, and commenced its military occupation of that country. We have decided not to update our arguments, largely because recent events support our original conclusions in ways we had not entirely anticipated. In a brief postscript, we will try to explain how.] Introduction It is hard now to portray A…
Citizenship and Crisis
Old Islam in Detroit
Detroit, Michigan, is home to several of the nation’s oldest, most diverse Muslim communities. In the early 1900s, thousands of Muslims from Eastern Europe, the Ottoman Empire, and British India built the nation’s first mosque in Detroit. By the 1930s, new Islam-oriented social movements, like the Nation of Islam, were taking root among African Americans. By the 1950s, Albanians, Arabs, African Americans, and South Asians all had mosques and reli…
Southend Struggles
This paper explores political struggles that took place in the Southend of Dearborn in the 1970s that coincided with the rise of Arab nationalist and Islamic movements in Michigan and linked these interests to those of Arab-American activists involved in the civil rights movement, labor organizing, and other campaigns for social and economic justice. These struggles launched the careers of activists who cooperated in the 1970s and 1980s to establ…
Mosqueing the Marketplace
Hamtramck, Michigan, is the first Muslim-majority city in the US, has the nation's first all Muslim city council, and likely boasts the highest number of mosques per capita as well. Yet as recently as the 1970s, Hamtramck was the center of the Polish diaspora, and was home instead to the nation's highest concentration of bars. Muslim entrepreneurs, primarily from Yemen and Bangladesh, stand poised to revitalize Hamtramck's economy by investing in…
Law (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Politics (7 works) · History (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Race, History, and American Society (4 works) · Diaspora (3 works)