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Swaroop, Sapna. and Heflin, Colleen. "What About Arabs? White and Black Americans' Attitudes Toward Arab Americans in Detroit in 1992" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Atlanta Hilton Hotel, Atlanta, GA, Aug 16, 2003 <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p107713_index.html>

Swaroop, S. and Heflin, C. M. , 2003-08-16 "What About Arabs? White and Black Americans' Attitudes Toward Arab Americans in Detroit in 1992" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Atlanta Hilton Hotel, Atlanta, GA Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p107713_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: In this paper, we explore the extent to which Detroit-area Black and White Americans endorsed or rejected stereotypes of Arab Americans in 1992 to assess how Arab Americans fit into the current racial hierarchy in the United States. We assess respondents' rankings of Arabs vis-�-vis other racial groups (e.g. how Whites rank Arabs, compared to how they rank Blacks, compared to how they rank themselves) on a seven-point scale for each of five dimensions: wealth, intelligence, work ethic, compatibility with others, and ability to speak English. In addition, we conduct multivariate analyses to estimate the independent effect of race after considering demographic and socioeconomic variables that differ for Whites and Blacks. We find that for each stereotype, White Americans view themselves most positively, Arab Americans more negatively than whites view themselves, and Black Americans most negatively. The patterns for Black Americans, however, are more complex. Arab Americans are between Whites and Blacks in terms of wealth and work ethic, but fall behind both White and Black Americans in their intelligence and ability to speak English. White and Arab Americans are equally difficult to get along with. Multivariate analyses show that even after accounting for demographic and socioeconomic characteristics, Blacks are still more likely than Whites to classify Arab Americans as wealthy, as difficult to get along with, and as speaking English poorly. Our future research plans include an investigation of whether the amount of contact that Black and White Americans have with Arab Americans affects their attitudes toward this group.

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