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

Name: Arab-American Faces and Voices The Origins of an Immigrant Community
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ISBN: 9780292709201

ISBN-10: 029270920X

ISBN-13: 9780292709201

Edition: 2003

Authors: Elizabeth Boosahda

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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Boosahda, a third-generation Arab American, draws on over two hundred personal interviews, as well as photographs and historical documents that are contemporaneous with the first generation of Arab Americans (Syrians, Lebanese, Palestinians), both Christians and Muslims, who immigrated to the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…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 6/1/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Epigraphs


Contents


Illustrations


Maps


Preface


Acknowledgments


Methodology: Data Collection



Historical Background



Migration



Multicultural and Multireligious Neighborhoods-



Work



Tradition, Education, and Culture



Americanization



Legacy and Linkage



Private-Sector Organizations



Syrian Brotherhood Orthodox Society, 1905



Young Mahiethett Society, 1916


Addendum II


Genealogy: Expanded Kinship in One Family


Timeline: Eastern Orthodox Syrian Christian Church


Notes


Bibliography


Illustration Credits


Annotated Suggested Reading


Organizations, Collections, and Exhibits


Author Biography


Index