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Possible Histories

Author : Charlotte Karem Albrecht
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520391748
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Possible Histories written by Charlotte Karem Albrecht and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-02-07 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. 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.

The Syrian Peddler

Author : Linda Hanna Lloyd
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781793242518
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book The Syrian Peddler written by Linda Hanna Lloyd and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a reader, I love historical fiction. Among my favorites is The Shoemaker's Wife by Adriana Trigiani. Although captivated by Trigiani's characters, Enza and Ciro, my thoughts never veered far from my grandfather's story as I read and reread the book. My Gidu had a similar story to tell and I only heard bits and pieces of what I believe was a fascinating life.My father's father, Sam, arrived in the New York harbor and Ellis Island about the year 1905 from Damascus, Syria. This marked the beginning of the remarkable success of a young man who was 17 at the time. Sam began work as a peddler in the coal mining settlements during the era when men became millionaires from investments in coal, coke, and steel. He eventually becomes the proprietor of Hanna's Department Store where he embodied the Syrian values of hard work, honesty, and trust. The central setting for The Syrian Peddler is in Southwestern Pennsylvania including Pittsburgh, Uniontown, New Salem, and Masontown; spanning the years between 1905 and 1958. The story is historical fiction as not all facts were available. As much as possible, the writing is factual. My research included visits to Ellis Island, The Hotel Wolcott, New York City, The Family History Museum, Salt Lake City, Utah. I went back to places in Pennsylvania that were familiar to me: Masontown, where I went to kindergarten and St. Ellien of Homs, Syrian Orthodox Church in Brownsville.I have met several people who have emigrated from Syria. One young man came six years ago and settled in Austin Texas where I now live. He is saddened by the destruction of majestic buildings and the war itself. So many lives lost. I cannot begin to imagine what Sam would think today.

Prairie Peddlers

Author : William Charles Sherman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Prairie Peddlers written by William Charles Sherman and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Inventing Home

Author : Akram Fouad Khater
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520227409
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Inventing Home written by Akram Fouad Khater and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001-10-30 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A social history of Lebanon during a critical period--the "long peace" between the uprising of 1860 and the beginning of the French Mandate in 1920. This is one of the few books on modern Middle Eastern history to take up issues of gender, migration, and economic change.

Constructions of Masculinity in the Middle East and North Africa

Author : Mohja Kahf
Publisher : American University in Cairo Press
ISBN 13 : 1649030150
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Constructions of Masculinity in the Middle East and North Africa written by Mohja Kahf and published by American University in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A multi-disciplinary exploration of how masculinity in the MENA region is constructed in film, literature, and nationalist discourse Constructions of masculinity are constantly evolving and being resisted in the Middle East and North Africa. There is no "before" that was a stable gendered environment. This edited collection examines constructions of both hegemonic and marginalized masculinities in the MENA region, through literary criticism, film studies, discourse analysis, anthropological accounts, and studies of military culture. Bringing together contributors from the disciplines of linguistics, comparative literature, sociology, cultural studies, queer and gender studies, film studies, and history, Constructions of Masculinity in the Middle East and North Africa spans the colonial to the postcolonial eras with emphasis on the late twentieth century to the present day. This collective study is a diverse and exciting addition to the literature on gender and societal organization at a time when masculinities in the Middle East and North Africa are often essentialized and misunderstood. Contributors: Jedidiah Anderson, Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina, USA Amal Amireh, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA Kaveh Bassiri, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, USA Oyman Basran, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, USA Alessandro Columbu, University of Manchester, England Nicole Fares, independent scholar Robert James Farley, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA Andrea Fischer-Tahir, independent scholar Nouri Gana, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA Kifah Hanna, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, USA Sarah Hudson, Connors State College, Warner, Oklahoma, USA Mohja Kahf, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, USA John Tofik Karam, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA Kathryn Kalemkerian, McGill University, Montreal, Canada Ebtihal Mahadeen, University of Edinburgh, Scotland Matthew Parnell, American University in Cairo, Egypt Nadine Sinno, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA

The Enchanted Mesa, and Other Poems

Author : Glenn Ward Dresbach
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Enchanted Mesa, and Other Poems written by Glenn Ward Dresbach and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Becoming American

Author : Alixa Naff
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809318964
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (189 download)

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Download or read book Becoming American written by Alixa Naff and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alixa Naff explores the experiences of Arabic-speaking immigrants to the United States before World War II, focusing on the pre-World War I pioneering generation that set the pattern for settlement and assimilation. Unlike many immigrants who were driven to the United States by dreams of industrial jobs or to escape religious or economic persecution, these artisans and owners of small, disconnected plots of land came to America to engage in the enterprise of peddling. Most of these immigrants planned to stay two or three years and return to their homelands wealthier and prouder than when they left.

Los Arabes of New Mexico

Author : Monika Ghattas
Publisher : Sunstone Press
ISBN 13 : 1611394783
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (113 download)

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Download or read book Los Arabes of New Mexico written by Monika Ghattas and published by Sunstone Press. This book was released on 2016-09-05 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the outset, Los Arabes (Arabic-speaking individuals) were peddlers, carrying a variety of wares that often included exotic items from the Holy Land. These skilled cross-cultural traders expected to strike it rich in the United States and then return to

Captivating Westerns

Author : Susan Kollin
Publisher : University of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496214234
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book Captivating Westerns written by Susan Kollin and published by University of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2019-05-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the transnational influences of what has been known as a uniquely American genre, “the Western,” Susan Kollin’s Captivating Westerns analyzes key moments in the history of multicultural encounters between the Middle East and the American West. In particular the book examines how experiences of contact and conflict have played a role in defining the western United States as a crucial American landscape. Kollin interprets the popular Western as a powerful national narrative and presents the cowboy hero as a captivating figure who upholds traditional American notions of freedom and promise, not just in the region but across the globe. Captivating Westerns revisits popular uses of the Western plot and cowboy hero in understanding American global power in the post-9/11 period. Although various attempts to build a case for the war on terror have referenced this quintessential American region, genre, and hero, they have largely overlooked the ways in which these celebrated spaces, icons, and forms, rather than being uniquely American, are instead the result of numerous encounters with and influences from the Middle East. By tracing this history of contact, encounter, and borrowing, this study expands the scope of transnational studies of the cowboy and the Western and in so doing discloses the powerful and productive influence the Middle East has had on the American West.

Transimperial Anxieties

Author : José D. Najar
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496235649
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book Transimperial Anxieties written by José D. Najar and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2023-06 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the late 1850s to the 1940s, multiple colonial projects, often in tension with each other, influenced the formation of local, transimperial, and transnational political identities of Arab Ottoman subjects in the eastern Mediterranean and the Western Hemisphere. Arab Ottoman men, women, and their descendants were generally accepted as whites in a racially stratified Brazilian society. Local anxieties about color and race among white Brazilians and European immigrants, however, soon challenged the white racial status the Brazilian state afforded to Arab Ottoman immigrants. In Transimperial Anxieties José D. Najar analyzes how overlapping transimperial processes of migration and return, community conflicts, and social adaption shaped the gendered, racial, and ethnic identity politics surrounding Arab Ottoman subjects and their descendants in Brazil. Upon arrival to the Brazilian Empire, Arab Ottoman subjects were referred to as turcos, an all-encompassing ethnic identity encased in Islamophobia and antisemitism, which forced the immigrants to renegotiate their identities in order to secure the possibility of upward mobility and national belonging. By exploring the relationship between race and gender in negotiating international and interimperial politics and law, national identity, and religion, Transimperial Anxieties advances understanding of the local and global forces shaping the lives of Arab Ottoman immigrants and their descendants in Brazil, and their reciprocity to state structure.

Arab American Women

Author : Michael W. Suleiman
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 0815655134
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book Arab American Women written by Michael W. Suleiman and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-01 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arab American women have played an essential role in shaping their homes, their communities, and their country for centuries. Their contributions, often marginalized academically and culturally, are receiving long- overdue attention with the emerging interdisciplinary field of Arab American women’s studies. The collected essays in this volume capture the history and significance of Arab American women, addressing issues of migration, transformation, and reformation as these women invented occupations, politics, philosophies, scholarship, literature, arts, and, ultimately, themselves. Arab American women brought culture and absorbed culture; they brought relationships and created relationships; they brought skills and talents and developed skills and talents. They resisted inequities, refused compliance, and challenged representation. They engaged in politics, civil society, the arts, education, the market, and business. And they told their own stories. These histories, these genealogies, these narrations that are so much a part of the American experiment are chronicled in this volume, providing an indispensable resource for scholars and activists.

Sajjilu Arab American

Author : Louise Cainkar
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 0815655223
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book Sajjilu Arab American written by Louise Cainkar and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-04 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both a summative description of the field and an exploration of new directions, this multidisciplinary reader addresses issues central to the fields of Arab American, US Muslim, and Southwest Asian and North African (SWANA) American studies. Taking a broad conception of the Americas, this collection simultaneously registers and critically reflects upon major themes in the field, including diaspora, migration, empire, race and racialization, securitization, and global South solidarity. The collection will be essential reading for scholars in Arab/SWANA American studies, Asian American studies, and race, ethnicity, and Indigenous studies, now and well into the future. Contributors include: Evelyn Alsultany, Carol W. N. Fadda, Hisham D. Aidi, Nadine Naber, Therí Pickens, Steven Salaita, Ella Shohat and Sarah M.A. Gualtieri.

United States Through Arab Eyes

Author : Nabil Matar
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474434371
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book United States Through Arab Eyes written by Nabil Matar and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-26 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vibrant collection of writings about America from its earliest Arab immigrants, as they reflected on and described the United States for the very first time.

American Arabesque

Author : Jacob Rama Berman
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814723217
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book American Arabesque written by Jacob Rama Berman and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2012-06-11 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of the American Literatures Initiative Series American Arabesque examines representations of Arabs, Islam and the Near East in nineteenth-century American culture, arguing that these representations play a significant role in the development of American national identity over the century, revealing largely unexplored exchanges between these two cultural traditions that will alter how we understand them today. Moving from the period of America's engagement in the Barbary Wars through the Holy Land travel mania in the years of Jacksonian expansion and into the writings of romantics such as Edgar Allen Poe, the book argues that not only were Arabs and Muslims prominently featured in nineteenth-century literature, but that the differences writers established between figures such as Moors, Bedouins, Turks and Orientals provide proof of the transnational scope of domestic racial politics. Drawing on both English and Arabic language sources, Berman contends that the fluidity and instability of the term Arab as it appears in captivity narratives, travel narratives, imaginative literature, and ethnic literature simultaneously instantiate and undermine definitions of the American nation and American citizenship.

Unmentionables

Author : Stacy Fahrenthold
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503641317
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Unmentionables written by Stacy Fahrenthold and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2024-12-03 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As weavers, garment workers, and peddlers, Syrian immigrants in the Americas fed the early twentieth-century transnational textile trade. These migrants and the commodities they produced—silk, linen, and cotton; lace and embroidery; undergarments and ready-wear clothing—moved along steamship routes from Beirut through Marseille and Madeira to New York City, New England, and Veracruz. As migrants and merchants crisscrossed the Atlantic in pursuit of work, Syrian textile manufacturing expanded across the hemisphere. Unmentionables offers a history of the global textile industry and the Syrians, Lebanese, and Palestinians who worked in it. Stacy Fahrenthold examines how Arab workers navigated processes of racialization, immigration restriction, and labor contestation. She writes women workers—the majority of Syrian garment workers—back into US labor history. She also situates the rise of Syrian American industrial elites, who exerted supply chain power to combat labor uprisings, resist unionization, and stake claim to the global textile industry. Critiquing the hegemony of the Syrian peddler in histories of this diaspora, Unmentionables introduces alternative narrators: union activists who led street demonstrations, women garment workers who shut down kimono factories, child laborers who threw snowballs at police, and the diasporic merchant capitalists who contended with all of them.

The portrayal of the child in children's literature

Author : Denise Escarpit
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 311155533X
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (115 download)

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Download or read book The portrayal of the child in children's literature written by Denise Escarpit and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-05-02 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Portrayal of the Child in Children's Literature (Proceedings of the 6th Conference of the Irscl Bordeaux, 1983).

Multiculturalism in the United States

Author : John D. Buenker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313062730
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Multiculturalism in the United States written by John D. Buenker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2005-03-30 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interest in ethnic studies and multiculturalism has grown considerably in the years since the 1992 publication of the first edition of this work. Co-editors Ratner and Buenker have revised and updated the first edition of Multiculturalism in the United States to reflect the changes, patterns, and shifts in immigration showing how American culture affects immigrants and is affected by them. Common topics that helped determine the degree and pace of acculturation for each ethnic group are addressed in each of the 17 essays, providing the reader with a comparative reference tool. Seven new ethnic groups are included: Arabs, Haitians, Vietnamese, Koreans, Filipinos, Asian Indians, and Dominicans. New essays on the Irish, Chinese, and Mexicans are provided as are revised and updated essays on the remaining groups from the first edition. The contribution to American culture by people of these diverse origins reflects differences in class, occupation, and religion. The authors explain the tensions and conflicts between American culture and the traditions of newly arrived immigrants. Changes over time that both of the cultures brought to America and of the culture that received them is also discussed. Essays on representative ethnic groups include African-Americans, American Indians, Arabs, Asian Indians, Chinese, Dominicans, Filipinos, Germans, Haitians, Irish, Italians, Jews, Koreans, Mexicans, Poles, Scandinavians, and the Vietnamese.