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A unique study in American immigration and assimilation history that also provides a special view of one of the smaller ethnic groups in American society. Naff focuses on the pre-World War I pioneering generation of Arabic-speaking immigrants, the generation that set the patterns for settlement and assimilation. Unlike many immigrants who were drawn to the United States by dreams of industrial jobs or to escape religious or economic persecution, most of these artisans and owners of small, disconnected plots of land came to America to engage in the enterprise of peddling. Most planned to stay two or three years and return to their homelands.
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Becoming American : The Early Arab Immigrant Experience M.E.R.I. Special Studies
author
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Naff, Alixa.
publisher
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Southern Illinois University Press
isbn10 | asin
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print isbn13
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9780809318964
ebook isbn13
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9780585108094
language
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English
subject
Syrian Americans--History, Arab Americans--History, Peddlers and peddling--United States--History.
publication date
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1993
lcc
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E184.S98N26 1993eb
ddc
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973/.049275691
subject
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Syrian Americans--History, Arab Americans--History, Peddlers and peddling--United States--History.
Page i
Page ii
M.E.R.I. Special Studies
University of Pennsylvania
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Becoming American
The Early Arab Immigrant Experience
Alixa Naff
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY PRESS Carbondale and Edwardsville
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To my parents and their pioneer companions A generation truly to be honored
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Copyright 1985 by the Board of Trustees, Southern Illinois University All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Edited by Teresa White Designed by Frank O. Williams Production supervised by Natalia Nadraga Paperback edition, 1993
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Naff, Alixa. Becoming American: the early Arab immigrant experience / Alixa Naff. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Syrian AmericansHistory. 2. Arab AmericansHistory. 3. Peddlers and peddlingUnited StatesHistory. I. Title. E184.S98N26 1993 973'.049275691dc2092-33848 ISBN 0-8093-1896-2 (pbk.)CIP
96 95 94 93 4 3 2 1
The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984.
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Contents
Illustrations
vii
Acknowledgments
ix
Note on Transliteration
xi
Introduction
1
1. Land, History, and Society
18
2. Migration
76
3. "Amrika"
118
4. Pack Peddling
128
5. On the Road
161
6. Off the Road
201
7. From Syrian to Syrian-American: Between the Wars
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