Publications
Books
Assimilation Suspended: The Making of Palestinian Americans. Stanford University Press. Under contract.
Neither Thugs nor Terrorists: Black-Palestinian Solidarity Movements in the United States (Activists’ stories). Washington, DC.: Academica Press. Under contract.
Works in Progress
Critical Exchange with Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory (Patricia Hill Collins, 2019) for Contemporary Political Theory due March, 2020
Re-imagining Muslim Americans as a Community,” Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam in North America. Invited chapter due March, 2020.
The re-emergence of Black-Palestinian solidarity movements: A Comparative Analysis of a Movement’s Challenges, Tactics, and Trajectories.
In discussion with Syracuse University Press (Critical Arab American Series)
“Leveraging fellahi [peasant] identity in metropolitan American” (Article, editing for submission)
Publications
Peer-reviewed Articles
Serhan, R. 2008. “Palestinian Weddings: The Invention of Palestine in New Jersey,” in Journal for Palestine Studies, 37 (4), pp. 21-37. UC-Berkeley Press.
Encyclopedia Entries
Serhan, R. 2005. “Virginity: Arab States,” in Joseph, Suad (editor). Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures, Volume 3: Family, Body, Sexuality and Health. The Netherlands: Brill Publishing, pp. 457-458.
Edited Volume
Chowkwanyun, Merlin and Randa Serhan (editors). (2011, paperback 2013). American Democracy and the Pursuit of Equality.
Book Chapters
Serhan, R. 2017. “Ethnic Weddings: Reinventing the Nation in Exile,” in Ernesto Castaneda (Ed), Immigration and Categorical Inequality: Migration to the City and the Birth of Race and Ethnicity. Routledge.
Serhan, R. 2014. “Muslim Immigration to America,” in Haddad, Yvonne and Jane Smith (editors). The Oxford Handbook of American Islam. Oxford University Press (page numbers forthcoming).
Serhan, R. 2011. “Palestinian and Jordanian Immigrants,” in Bayer, Ronald (editor). Multicultural America: An Encyclopedia of the Newest Americans. California: ABC-CLIO Publishers, pp. 1695-1730.
Book Reviews
Serhan, R. (November 2016). Book review. Palestinian Commemoration in Israel (3rd ed., vol. 45, pp. 2). Thousand Oaks, CA: American Sociological Association/SAGE.
Serhan, R. (Summer 2016). Book review. Strangers in the West: The Syrian Colony of New York City, 1880-1900 (2015). New York, NY: Kalimah Press.
Serhan, R. (March 2016). Book review. Jerusalem: The Spatial Politics of a Divided Metropolis (1st ed., vol. 15, pp. 3). Hanover, PA: American Sociological Association/Wiley Blackwell.
Serhan, R. 2013. Review of: Wayne Baker, Sally Howell, Amaney Jamal, et al. “Detroit Arab American Study Team. Citizenship and Crisis: Arab Detroit after 9/11” New York: Russell Sage Foundation, (2009). Arab Studies Quarterly, issue 35, 2. California: Pluto Publishers.
Serhan, R. 2013. Review of: Paul Tabar, Greg Noble, and Scott Poynting. “On Being Lebanese in Australia: Identity, Racism, and the Ethnic Field Beirut, Lebanon” Lebanese American University Press, (2009). Arab Studies Quarterly, issue 35, 1. California: Pluto Publishers.