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Author Boosahda, Elizabeth, 1926-2017

Title Arab-American faces and voices : the origins of an immigrant community / Elizabeth Boosahda
Edition 1st ed
Published Austin : University of Texas Press, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 284 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Methodology: Data Collection -- Historical Background -- Migration -- Multicultural and Multireligious Neighborhoods -- Work -- Tradition, Education, and Culture -- Americanization -- Legacy and Linkage -- Addendum I: Private-Sector Organizations -- Syrian Brotherhood Orthodox Society, 1905 -- Young Mahiethett Society, 1916 -- Addendum II: The Middle East and the Arab World after World War II -- Genealogy: Expanded Kinship in One Family -- Timeline: Eastern Orthodox Syrian Christian Church
Summary "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Boosahda, a third-generation Arab American, draws on over two hundred personal interviews, as well as photographs and historical documents that are contemporaneous with the first generation of Arab Americans (Syrians, Lebanese, Palestinians), both Christians and Muslims, who immigrated to the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 community in Worcester, Massachusetts, a major northeastern center for Arab immigration, and Worcester's links to and similarities with Arab-American communities throughout North and South America. Using the voices of Arab immigrants and their families, she explores their entire experience, from emigration at the turn of the twentieth century to the present-day lives of their descendants. This rich documentation sheds light on many aspects of Arab-American life, including the Arab entrepreneurial motivation and success, family life, education, religious and community organizations, and the role of women in initiating immigration and the economic success they achieved."--Google Books viewed Mar. 9, 2021
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-245) and indexes
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Subject Arab Americans -- Massachusetts -- Worcester -- History
Arab Americans -- Massachusetts -- Worcester -- History -- Sources
Arab Americans -- Massachusetts -- Worcester -- Interviews
Immigrants -- Massachusetts -- Worcester -- History
Immigrants -- Massachusetts -- Worcester -- History -- Sources
Arabs -- Migrations -- History
HISTORY -- State & Local.
HISTORY -- State & Local -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- General.
Arab Americans
Arabs -- Migrations
Emigration and immigration
Ethnic relations
Immigrants
SUBJECT Worcester (Mass.) -- Ethnic relations
Arab countries -- Emigration and immigration -- History
United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History
Latin America -- Emigration and immigration -- History
Subject Arab countries
Latin America
Massachusetts -- Worcester
United States
Genre/Form History
Interviews
Sources
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0292798881
9780292798885