Arab-American Faces and Voices: The Origins of an Immigrant CommunityUniversity of Texas Press, 2010 M01 1 - 304 páginas As Arab Americans seek to claim their communal identity and rightful place in American society at a time of heightened tension between the United States and the Middle East, an understanding look back at more than one hundred years of the Arab-American community is especially timely. In this book, Elizabeth Boosahda, a third-generation Arab American, draws on over two hundred personal interviews, as well as photographs and historical documents that are contemporaneous with the first generation of Arab Americans (Syrians, Lebanese, Palestinians), both Christians and Muslims, who immigrated to the Americas between 1880 and 1915, and their descendants. Boosahda focuses on the Arab-American community in Worcester, Massachusetts, a major northeastern center for Arab immigration, and Worcester's links to and similarities with Arab-American communities throughout North and South America. Using the voices of Arab immigrants and their families, she explores their entire experience, from emigration at the turn of the twentieth century to the present-day lives of their descendants. This rich documentation sheds light on many aspects of Arab-American life, including the Arab entrepreneurial motivation and success, family life, education, religious and community organizations, and the role of women in initiating immigration and the economic success they achieved. |
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... Lebanese Syrian Associated Charities / Aid to Leukemia Stricken American Chil- dren ( alsac ) and St. Jude Children's Research Hospital , Memphis , Tennessee . Our early immigrant history in America could be lost forever if my gen ...
... Lebanese , a few Syrians , and fewer Palestinians , pre- dominantly Christian , but a few Druze ( a sect in Islam named after Ismail al - Darazi , a religious leader who died in 1019 ) and fewer Muslim . From 1880 to 1915 they emigrated ...
... Lebanese , and Palestinian ) . Most of them were in their late eighties , many were in their nineties , and one was aged 106. Most of the interviews and the collection of data took place between mid - 1987 and 1994. From 1991 to early ...
... Lebanese , a few Syrians , and fewer Palestinians , came to America from the Ottoman Empire ( see map 2 ) , especially from the province of Syria , which included the semiautonomous administrative district of Jabal Lubnan , also called ...
... Lebanese , Syrian , or Palestinian ancestry . Frequently Lebanese , more often the Maronites ( who use the Syro- Antiochene rite and are in union with the Bishop of Rome ) , recog- nize themselves as descendants of the Phoenicians ...
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MULTICULTURAL AND MULTIRELIGIOUS NEIGHBORHOODS | 49 |
WORK | 65 |
TRADITION EDUCATION AND CULTURE | 91 |
AMERICANIZATION | 131 |
LEGACY AND LINKAGE | 171 |
PrivateSector Organizations | 197 |
Eastern Orthodox Syrian Church | 211 |
Notes | 222 |
Bibliography | 244 |
Illustration Credits | 248 |
Annotated Suggested Reading | 249 |
Organizations Collections and Exhibits | 260 |
Author Biography | 267 |
Index of Arabic Terms | 268 |
B Young Mahiethett Society 1916 | 200 |
The Middle East and the Arab World after World War II | 204 |
Expanded Kinship in One Family | 207 |
General Index | 270 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Arab-American Faces and Voices: The Origins of an Immigrant Community Elizabeth Boosahda Vista previa limitada - 2003 |
Arab-American Faces and Voices: The Origins of an Immigrant Community Elizabeth Boosahda Vista de fragmentos - 2003 |