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The United States through Arab eyes : an anthology of writings (1876-1914)

Matar, N. I. (Nabil I.), 1949- editor, translator, writer of introduction

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\"The first Arab immigrants to New York or Alaska or San Francisco were 'small' men and women, preoccupied with eking a living at the same time as confronting the challenges of settling in a new country. They had to come to terms with new race communities such as Indians, Chinese and Blacks, the changing role of women, and the Americanisation of their identity. Their writings about these experiences--from travellers and emigrants, rich and poor, men and women--took the form of travelogues and newspaper essays, daily diaries and adventure narratives, autobiographies and histories, full-length books published in the Ottoman Press in Lebanon and journal articles in Arabic newspapers printed in Philadelphia, Boston, and New York. Together they show the transnational perspective of immigrants as they reflected on and described the United States for the very first time\"--Back cover.

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Subject: Arabs United States Attitudes. / Arabs United States Social conditions. / Immigrants United States History. / Arabs Attitudes. / Arabs Social conditions. / Emigration and immigration. / Ethnic relations. / Immigrants. / United States Ethnic relations History. / United States Emigration and immigration History. / United States.
• ISBN: 9781474434355, 1474434355, 9781474434362, 1474434363

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
DS63.2.U5 U68 2018	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE