Arab American identity is strongly rooted in the political realities and social identity constructions of the homeland. For decades, homeland attachments have shaped Arab American identity; thus, it is not surprising that Arab American arts have traditionally relied on the cultural and folkloric...

More than 20 years ago, as part of my dissertation research, I sat behind a sewing machine at a Mexican maquiladora in Ciudad Juarez. That border city was the cradle of outsourcing in the region for American companies aiming to reduce production costs and improve their competitive edge in the...

In a recent review of Phillip Roth’s prolific contribution to American Literature, a critic observes about the central character in his most notorious book, that Alexander Portnoy’s onanistic hold to the flesh is literally, in rebellion against the life that is being forced upon him . . . A...

The efforts by the world’s most powerful corporations to develop global markets have spawned a substantial sociological and economic literature on how transnational markets form, what stages characterize market development, and what rules of exchange are most effective. As the authors of a...

We review the empirical literature on ethnic economic enclaves after the concept was formulated twenty-five years ago. The balance of this literature is mixed, but many studies reporting negative conclusions were marred by faulty measurement of the concept. We discuss the original theoretical...

More than 20 years ago, as part of my dissertation research, I sat behind a sewing machine at a Mexican maquiladora in Ciudad Juarez. That border city was the cradle of outsourcing in the region for American companies aiming to reduce production costs and improve their competitive edge in the...

In a recent review of Phillip Roth’s prolific contribution to American Literature, a critic observes about the central character in his most notorious book, that Alexander Portnoy’s onanistic hold to the flesh is literally, in rebellion against the life that is being forced upon him . . . A...