Research Catalog

Title

Between Arab and White : race and ethnicity in the early Syrian American diaspora / Sarah M.A. Gualtieri.

Author

Gualtieri, Sarah M. A., 1967-

Publication

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2009.

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Details

Description

xv, 270 p. : ill., map; 23 cm.

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 racial terms and position themselves within racial hierarchies as part of a broader process of ethnic identity formation. -- Back cover.

Alternative Title

Race and ethnicity in the early Syrian American diaspora

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Syrian Americans > Race identity > History
• Syrian Americans > Ethnic identity > History
• Syrian Americans > History
• United States > Race relations

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-256) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

From internal to international migration -- Claiming whiteness: Syrians and naturalization law -- Nation and migration: emergent Arabism and diasporic nationalism -- The lynching of Nola Romey: Syrian racial in betweenness in the Jim Crow South -- Marriage and respectability in the era of immigration restriction.

ISBN

• 9780520255326 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0520255321 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780520255340 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0520255348 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2009003364

OCLC

• 262893246
• SCSB-11164256

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library