Between Arab and White

Race and Ethnicity in the Early Syrian American Diaspora
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-520-25534-0
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 149 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 399 g

Reihe: American Crossroads

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 racial terms and position themselves within racial hierarchies as part of a broader process of ethnic identity formation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gualtieri, Sarah

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Politische Ethnologie, Recht, Organisation, Identität
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Historische Migrationsforschung
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Note on Terms and Transliterations

Introduction

1. From Internal to International Migration

2. Claiming Whiteness: Syrians and Naturalization Law

3. Nation and Migration: Emergent Arabism and Diasporic Nationalism

4. The Lynching of Nola Romey: Syrian Racial Inbetweenness in the Jim Crow South

5. Marriage and Respectability in the Era of Immigration Restriction

Conclusion

Epilogue: Becoming Arab American

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Sarah Gualtieri is Associate Professor in the Departments of History and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California.