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

Zusatztext "Thought-provoking book." Informationen zum Autor Sarah Gualtieri is Associate Professor in the Departments of History and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. Klappentext "Direct and accessible. A tour de force of research that demonstrates seemingly unlikely origins! evolutions! and contradictions of social identities."-George Lipsitz! author of Footsteps in the Dark and American Studies in a Moment of Danger Zusammenfassung Presents a study of Syrian immigration to the United States that places Syrians - and Arabs more generally - at the center of discussions about race and racial formation from which they have long been marginalized. This work focuses on the first wave of Arab immigration and settlement in the United States in the years before World War II. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Note on Terms and Transliterations 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

Product details

• Authors: Sarah Gualtieri, Sarah M. A. Gualtieri, Gualtieri Sarah
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.05.2009
• EAN: 9780520255340
• ISBN: 978-0-520-25534-0
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: American Crossroads; American Crossroads
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, Migration, immigration & emigration, United States of America, USA, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Migration, immigration and emigration, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Biracial & Multiracial Studies, Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples