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EMILY REGAN WILLS, Arab New York: Politics and Community in the Everyday Lives of Arab Americans (New York: New York University Press, 2019)

In Arab New York, Emily Wills poses an important and timely question: What does it mean for Arab Americans to engage in politics when they are subjected to political exclusion on so many levels in the United States? In this book, Wills focuses on the “everyday politics” of Arab Americans, which, she argues, occurs “wherever they struggle, argue, or resist the workings of power” (6). The “compulsory” politicization of Arab Americans, as a community experiencing systemic anti-Arab racism, imbues their daily lives with politics (6). The book expands the fields of Arab American and social movement studies by offering a fascinating case study of Arab Americans in New York, the third largest Arab American community in the US but which Wills observes has been less researched than Detroit’s Arab American community, the largest in the nation and the focus of much of the earlier work in Arab American studies. This ethnography focuses on Arab Bay Ridge in Brooklyn, which is home to the largest concentration of Arabs in New York, and is based on research conducted between 2008–2010.