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LOGOS 140 Book publishing for minorities in the United States: The Arab-American conundrum Jehanne Moharram Before being awarded her MA in Publishing Studies from City University London, in 2003, Jehanne Moharram worked for Barnes & Noble bookstores in the USA and spent three years as a freelance journalist in Egypt. She is now an assistant editor at Potomac Books (formerly Brassey’s, Inc) in Washington, DC. Her 2003 dissertation, on which this article is based was joint winner of the Sue Thomson Prize in 2004. Email: jmoharram@earthlink.net The traditional image of an American is a person of European ancestry and Christian background. Today one third of Americans are of non-European descent. In California and many urban centres across the country, the minorities have become the majority. Census predictions estimate that by 2060 the US will have a minority white population. How is the American “melting pot” reflected in book publishing? As an Arab-American, I prefer the analogy of a mosaic to a melting pot – a mosaic i n w h i c h s o m e p i e c e s a r e m i s s i n g i n t h e
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Published: Jan 1, 2005
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