| Description |
1 online resource (206 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Stanford studies in comparative race and ethnicity
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Stanford studies in comparative race and ethnicity.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : Arab Amairka -- The Syrian Pacific -- Murder at Sleepy Lagoon -- Meeting at the mahrajan -- Fragments of the past, identities of the present -- Palimpsests in iconic California -- Conclusion : mestizaje in Arab American families. |
| Summary |
"Los Angeles is home to the largest population of people of Middle Eastern origin and descent in the United States. Since the late nineteenth century, Syrian and Lebanese migration, in particular, to Southern California has been intimately connected to and through Latin America. Arab Routes uncovers the stories of this Syrian American community, one both Arabized and Latinized, to reveal important cross-border and multiethnic solidarities in Syrian California. Sarah M. A. Gualtieri reconstructs the early Syrian connections through California, Texas, Mexico, and Lebanon. She reveals the Syrian interests in the defense of the Mexican American teens charged in the 1942 Sleepy Lagoon murder, in actor Danny Thomas's rise to prominence in LA's Syrian cultural festivals, and in more recent activities of the grandchildren of immigrants to reclaim a sense of Arabness. Gualtieri reinscribes Syrians into Southern California history through her examination of powerful images and texts, augmented with interviews with descendants of immigrants. Telling the story of how Syrians helped forge a global Los Angeles, Arab Routes counters a long-held stereotype of Arabs as outsiders and underscores their longstanding place in American culture and in interethnic coalitions, past and present."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Syrian Americans -- California, Southern -- Ethnic identity.
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Syrian Americans. |
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Southern California. |
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Ethnicity. |
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Arab Americans -- California, Southern -- Ethnic identity.
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Arab Americans. |
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Immigrants -- Cultural assimilation -- California, Southern.
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Immigrants -- Cultural assimilation. |
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Arab Americans -- Relations with Hispanic Americans -- History.
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Arab Americans -- Relations with Hispanic Americans. |
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History. |
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California, Southern -- Emigration and immigration -- History.
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Emigration and immigration. |
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California, Southern -- Ethnic relations -- History.
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Ethnic relations. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gualtieri, Sarah M.A., 1967- Arab routes. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2019 9781503606173 (DLC) 2019007667 (OCoLC)1086013649 |
| ISBN |
9781503610866 (electronic book) |
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1503610861 (electronic book) |
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9781503606173 |
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1503606171 |
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9781503610859 |
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1503610853 |
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