Title Possible histories : Arab Americans and the queer ecology of peddling / Charlotte Karem Albrecht

Published Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2023]

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Description 1 online resource (204 pages) : illustrations Series American crossroads ; 70 American crossroads ; 70. Contents Introduction -- 1. Traveler, peddler, stranger, Syrian: queer provocations and sexual threats -- 2. "A woman without limits": Syrian women in the peddling economy -- 3. Wandering in diaspora: the Syrian American elite and sexual normativity -- 4. The possibilities of peddling: imagining homosocial and homoerotic pleasure in Arab America -- Conclusion: Alixa Naff and the parenthetical Syrian American lesbian Summary "Many of the hundreds of thousands of Syrians who immigrated to the US beginning in the 1870s worked as peddlers. Men were able to transgress Syrian norms related to marriage practices while they were traveling, while Syrian women accessed more economic autonomy though their participation in peddling networks. In Possible Histories, Charlotte Karem Albrecht explores this peddling economy of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as a site for revealing how dominant ideas about sexuality are imbricated in Arab American racial histories. Karem Albrecht marshals a queer affective approach to community and family history to show how Syrian immigrant peddlers and their interdependent networks of labor and care appeared in interconnected discourses of modernity, sexuality, gender, class, and race. Possible Histories conceptualizes this profession, and its place in narratives of Arab American history, as a "queer ecology" of laboring practices, intimacies, and knowledge production. This book ultimately proposes a new understanding of the long arm of Arab American history that puts sexuality and gender at the heart of ways of navigating US racial systems"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on print version record Subject Syrian Americans -- Social conditions Syrian Americans -- Economic conditions Peddlers -- Social networks -- United States Sexual minorities -- Social networks -- United States Syrian Americans -- Social networks Arab Americans -- Social networks Social networks -- United States Sexual orientation -- United States Sexual minority culture -- United States HISTORY / LGBTQ+. Social networks Sexual minority culture Sexual orientation United States Form Electronic book ISBN 0520391748 9780520391741

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