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Author Gualtieri, Sarah M. A., 1967- author.

Title Arab routes : pathways to Syrian California / Sarah M.A. Gualtieri
Published Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (206 pages)
Series Stanford studies in comparative race and ethnicity
Stanford studies in comparative race and ethnicity.
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
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."-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Syrian Americans -- California, Southern -- Ethnic identity
Arab Americans -- California, Southern -- Ethnic identity
Immigrants -- Cultural assimilation -- California, Southern
Arab Americans -- Relations with Hispanic Americans -- History
Arab Americans -- Relations with Hispanic Americans
Arab Americans -- Ethnic identity
Emigration and immigration
Ethnic relations
Immigrants -- Cultural assimilation
SUBJECT California, Southern -- Emigration and immigration -- History
California, Southern -- Ethnic relations -- History
Subject Southern California
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781503610866
1503610861