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Arab routes : pathways to Syrian California

Title
Arab routes : pathways to Syrian California / Sarah M.A. Gualtieri.
Author
Gualtieri, Sarah M. A., 1967-
Publication
  • Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2020]
  • ©2020

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Description
206 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.
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."--
Series Statement
Stanford studies in comparative race and ethnicity
Uniform Title
Stanford studies in comparative race and ethnicity.
Subjects
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-198) 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.
Call Number
JFD 20-1396
ISBN
  • 9781503606173
  • 1503606171
  • 9781503610859
  • 1503610853
  • 9781503610866 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
  • 2019007667
  • 40029582995
OCLC
1086013649
Author
Gualtieri, Sarah M. A., 1967- author.
Title
Arab routes : pathways to Syrian California / Sarah M.A. Gualtieri.
Publisher
Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2020]
Copyright Date
©2020
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Stanford studies in comparative race and ethnicity
Stanford studies in comparative race and ethnicity.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-198) and index.
Other Form:
Online version: Gualtieri, Sarah M.A., 1967- Arab routes. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2019 9781503610866 (DLC) 2019981286
Other Standard Identifier
40029582995
Research Call Number
JFD 20-1396
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