Arab-American Faces and Voices: The Origins of an Immigrant Community

Portada
University of Texas Press, 2003 M07 1 - 284 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Boosahda, a third-generation Arab American, draws on over two hundred personal interviews, as well as photographs and historical documents that are contemporaneous with the first generation of Arab Americans (Syrians, Lebanese, Palestinians), both Christians and Muslims, who immigrated to the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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HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
1
MIGRATION
17
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

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The Arab Americans: A History
Greg Orfalea
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