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Boosahda, a third-generation Arab American, draws on over two hundred personal interviews, as well as photographs and historical documents that are contemporaneous with the first generation of Arab Americans (Syrians, Lebanese, Palestinians), both Christians and Muslims, who immigrated to the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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... Century C.e. 9 3. Lebanon : Where the Journey Began 10 4. Mandate Powers under Auspices of League of Nations , 1922 12 5. Landownership in Section of El - Tellee , Worcester , Massachusetts , 1922 and Earlier 13 PREFACE The time is ...
... century of the Common Era , and in its classical , or Quranic form , the Arabic language spread to the Fertile ... centuries ) Arabs and their language , Arabic , have come into contact in a more concentrated fashion with the Western ...
... centuries . However , this transliteration does not reflect what has become the standard of Arabic transliteration . For consistency's sake , the definite article is transliterated throughout the book as " el , " although " al " and ...
... centuries , from around 632 c.e. to about 1258. The empire included the Umayyad caliphate at Damascus ( 632 to about 750 ) and the Abbasid caliphate at Baghdad ( 750 to about 1258 ) . It reached its greatest size from 700 to about 850 ...
... centuries , from 711 to 1492. Dur- ing the Inquisition of 1492 King Ferdinand V and Queen Isabella I expelled the Arabs ... century saw the decline of the Arab Empire and the rise of the Ottomans . The Ottoman Empire was founded in the ...
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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 |