Does the inclusion of Muslims in Midwestern history change our ideas about what it means to be a Midwesterner? Dispelling the misconception that Muslims are new arrivals in Ohio and the Midwest, Edward Curtis tells the story of African American, Arab American, and South Asian Americans who established Muslim communities in Akron, Cleveland, Dayton, and Toledo in the middle twentieth century. Their history, Curtis argues, helps us rethink fundamental myths about the heartland.
