20th century american culture
A01=Sarah Gualtieri
american immigration policy
arab immigration
arab settlement
arabs
Author_Sarah Gualtieri
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diaspora
diasporic nationalism
emergent arabism
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ethic identity formation
global disaster
historical
history
immigration and immigrants
immigration restriction
internal migration
international migration
jim crow south
lebanon
lynching
marginalized groups
marriage
political
race in america
racial formation
respectability
syria
syrian americans
syrian immigration
united states of america
Product details
- ISBN 9780520255340
- Weight: 408g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 06 May 2009
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 racial terms and position themselves within racial hierarchies as part of a broader process of ethnic identity formation.
Sarah Gualtieri is Associate Professor in the Departments of History and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California.
