Arab American Faces and Voices The Origins of an Immigrant Community 1st Edition by Elizabeth Boosahda 029270920X 9780292709201

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ISBN 10: 029270920X

ISBN 13: 9780292709201

Author: Elizabeth Boosahda

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Boosahda, a third-generation Arab American, draws on over two hundred personal interviews, as well as photographs and historical documents that are contemporaneous with the first generation of Arab Americans (Syrians, Lebanese, Palestinians), both Christians and Muslims, who immigrated to the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.

Arab American Faces and Voices The Origins of an Immigrant Community 1st Table of contents:

1. Historical Background

2. Migration

3. Multicultural and Multireligious Neighborhoods

4. Work

5. Tradition, Education, and Culture

6. Americanization

7. Legacy and Linkage

Addendum I. Private-Sector Organizations

A. Syrian Brotherhood Orthodox Society, 1905

B. 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 Church

Notes

Bibliography

Illustration Credits

Annotated Suggested Reading

Organizations, Collections, and Exhibits

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