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Between Arab and White : Race and Ethnicity in the Early Syrian-American Diaspora

Author
Gualtieri, Sarah M. A., 1967-
Published
CA : University of California Press, 2009.
Physical Description
1 online resource (291 pages).
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Language Note
English.
Contents
Cover; Contents; Introduction; 1. From Internal to International Migration; 2. Claiming Whiteness: Syrians and Naturalization Law; 3. Nation and Migration: Emergent Arabism and Diasporic Nationalism; 4. The Lynching of Nola Romey: Syrian Racial Inbetweenness in the Jim Crow South; 5. Marriage and Respectability in the Era of Immigration Restriction; Conclusion; Epilogue: Becoming Arab American; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
Summary
This multifaceted study of Syrian immigration to the United States places Syrians-- and Arabs more generally--at the center of discussions about race and racial formation from which they have long been marginalized. Between Arab and White focuses on the first wave of Arab immigration and settlement in the United States in the years before World War II, but also continues the story up to the present. It presents an original analysis of the ways in which people mainly from current day Lebanon and Syria--the largest group of Arabic-speaking immigrants before World War II--came to view themselves in r.
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9780520943469 (electronic bk.)
0520943465 (electronic bk.)
0520255321 (cloth)
9780520255326 (cloth)
0520255348 (paper)
9780520255340 (paper)
1282360930
9781282360938
9786612360930
6612360933
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text file
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-256) and index.
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