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Description

1. 206 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.

Summary

1. "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

1. Stanford studies in comparative race and ethnicity

Uniform title

1. Stanford studies in comparative race and ethnicity.

Subject

1. Syrian Americans > California, Southern > Ethnic identity
2. Arab Americans > California, Southern > Ethnic identity
3. Immigrants > Cultural assimilation > California, Southern
4. Arab Americans > Relations with Hispanic Americans > History
5. Arab Americans > Relations with Hispanic Americans
6. Arab Americans > Ethnic identity
7. Emigration and immigration
8. Ethnic relations
9. Immigrants > Cultural assimilation
10. California, Southern > Emigration and immigration > History
11. California, Southern > Ethnic relations > History
12. Southern California

Genre/Form

1. History.

Contents

1. 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

1. JFD 20-1396

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-198) and index.

Author

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

Title

1. Arab routes : pathways to Syrian California / Sarah M.A. Gualtieri.

Publisher

1. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2020]

Copyright date

1. ©2020

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. Stanford studies in comparative race and ethnicity
2. Stanford studies in comparative race and ethnicity.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-198) and index.

Other form:

1. Online version: Gualtieri, Sarah M.A., 1967- Arab routes. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2019 9781503610866 (DLC) 2019981286

LCCN

1. 2019007667

Other standard identifier

1. 40029582995

ISBN

1. 9781503606173 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
2. 1503606171 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
3. 9781503610859 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
4. 1503610853 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
5. 9781503610866 electronic book

Research call number

1. JFD 20-1396