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Boosahda, a third-generation Arab American, draws on over two hundred personal interviews, as well as photographs and historical documents that are contemporaneous with the first generation of Arab Americans (Syrians, Lebanese, Palestinians), both Christians and Muslims, who immigrated to the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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... records , official documents , Arabic and English printed matter , family records , memorabilia , and a collection of mostly vintage ( pre - 1920 ) illustrations . I preserved — unedited — the unaf- fected anecdotal styles and attitudes ...
... records, official documents, Arabic and English printed matter, family records, memorabilia, and a collection of mostly vintage (pre 1920) illustrations. I preserved—unedited—the unaffected anecdotalstyles andattitudes ofthe people ...
... records . After World War I , they fre- quently identified themselves as either Syrian , Lebanese , or Palestinian American . The period after World War II saw a growing consciousness of Arab identity , and it was common that more ...
... 1904 ( Wor- cester House Directory , Real Estate Record , p . 589 ) and was the same owner in 1922. Often the same Arab - American names appeared as owners of the same property on the Richards ' maps of 1911 and Historical Background 15.
... station that housed all the records going back to 1855. In the meantime the processing of immigrants took place at the temporary quarters at the Barge office in the Battery . State control of immigration policy shifted to Migration 23.
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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 |