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Between Arab and White : Race and Ethnicity in the Early Syrian-American Diaspora.
This multifaceted study of Syrian immigration to the United States places Syrians-- and Arabs more generally--at the center of discussions about race and racial formation from which they have long been marginalized. Between Arab and White focuses on the first wave of Arab immigration and settlement...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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CA :
University of California Press,
2009.
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| Colección: | American crossroads ;
26. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This multifaceted study of Syrian immigration to the United States places Syrians-- and Arabs more generally--at the center of discussions about race and racial formation from which they have long been marginalized. Between Arab and White focuses on the first wave of Arab immigration and settlement in the United States in the years before World War II, but also continues the story up to the present. It presents an original analysis of the ways in which people mainly from current day Lebanon and Syria--the largest group of Arabic-speaking immigrants before World War II--came to view themselves in r. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (291 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-256) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520943469 0520943465 0520255321 9780520255326 0520255348 9780520255340 1282360930 9781282360938 9786612360930 6612360933 |