Author's Keywords: ethnic conflict, september 11, terrorism, arab muslims, community, conflict, collective identity, cultural trauma, jersey city	Convention All Academic Convention is the premier solution for your association's abstract management solutions needs. Submission - Custom fields, multiple submission types, tracks, audio visual, multiple upload formats, automatic conversion to pdf. Review - Peer Review, Bulk reviewer assignment, bulk emails, ranking, z-score statistics, and multiple worksheets! Reports - Many standard and custom reports generated while you wait. Print programs with participant indexes, event grids, and more! Scheduling - Flexible and convenient grid scheduling within rooms and buildings. Conflict checking and advanced filtering. Communication - Bulk email tools to help your administrators send reminders and responses. Use form letters, a message center, and much more! Management - Search tools, duplicate people management, editing tools, submission transfers, many tools to manage a variety of conference management headaches! Click here for more information.
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Bryan, Jennifer. "‘Terror Town’ Jersey City: Cultural Trauma, Conflict and Community after 9/11" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, TBA, New York, New York City, Aug 11, 2007 <Not Available>. 2009-05-24 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p184715_index.html>

Bryan, J. L. , 2007-08-11 "‘Terror Town’ Jersey City: Cultural Trauma, Conflict and Community after 9/11" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, TBA, New York, New York City Online <PDF>. 2009-05-24 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p184715_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: The attack of September 11th, on the World Trade Center in New York, had a tremendous impact on the social fabric of community life for Arab Muslims, as well as their diverse neighbors, living in working class neighborhoods of Jersey City, NJ—located just across the Hudson River from Lower Manhattan. In particular, this attack sparked a critical turning point in the construction of collective identity, the shifting of group alliances, and the nature of inter-group relationships for Arab Muslims and their neighbors. Sociologically, how can we explain the divergent and troubling responses to the attacks of 9/11 in Jersey City? Why did religion—perhaps more specifically, Arab Muslimness—become the most salient fault line dividing groups? How did Italian-Americans and African-Americans--who shared a long history of local conflict—come together to form a new (albeit shaky) us vs. them? How does what happened in Jersey City relate to prevailing and emerging theories of ethnic conflict, collective identity and cultural trauma? In this paper, I draw on five years of ethnographic research (September 2001 to September 2006) to discuss some of the most urgent social effects of 9/11 on Arab Muslims and intergroup relationships in Jersey City.

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