Between Arab and White
Subtitle: race and ethnicity in the early Syrian American diaspora
By: Sarah M.A. Gualtieri.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9780520255326; 9780520255340
Subjects: Syrian Americans -- Race identity -- History; Syrian Americans -- Ethnic identity -- History; Syrian Americans -- History; United States -- Race relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: From internal to international migration; title: Claiming whiteness: Syrians and naturalization law; title: Nation and migration: emergent Arabism and diasporic; title: Nationalism; title: The lynching of Nola Romey: Syrian racial in betweenness; title: In the Jim Crow south; title: Marriage and respectability in the era of immigration; title: Restriction.