{"product_id":"becoming-american-the-early-arab-immigrant-experience-paperback-softback-9780809318964","title":"Becoming American; The Early Arab Immigrant Experience (Paperback \/ softback) 9780809318964","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBecoming American\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Early Arab Immigrant Experience\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAlixa Naff (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780809318964\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 30 March 1993\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e392 pages, 21\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.56 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\"I found \u003ci\u003eBecoming American \u003c\/i\u003espellbinding and could not put it down until I finished it.\"\"—\u003cb\u003eFarah Gilanshah\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMESA Bulletin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e|\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\"With scholarly devotion, Alixa Naff reconstructs this sparsely documented history [of Arab immigrants from the Syrian and Lebanese segments of the Ottoman Empire] mainly from interviews with second-generation Arabs who provide vivid if somewhat nostalgic recollections of their parents’ heroic application of the Levantine work ethic to the not-dissimilar American way of life.\"\"—\u003cb\u003eJohn D. Yohannan\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eYork Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e|\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\"The best single volume about… perhaps 150,000 immigrants largely from what is now Lebanon who came before World War II. Although many Americans . . . write as if the words \u003ci\u003eArab \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eMuslim \u003c\/i\u003ewere synonymous, some 85 percent of these people were Christians.\"\"—\u003cb\u003eRoger Daniels\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJournal of the West\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\"With special emphasis on the period 1880 to 1920, and on the role of pack peddling on the economic mobility and acculturation of the pioneer Arab Americans, Alixa Naff’s work is among the most comprehensive and interesting studies available on the history of Arab ethnicity in the U.S.\"\"—\u003cb\u003eHelen Hatab\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eSamhan\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMiddle East Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\"The importance of women’s economic roles as peddlers and later as shopkeepers is emphasized. . .  [Becoming American] is a significant contribution to the literature on ethnic enterprise and on immigrant women.\"\"—\u003cb\u003eMaxine S. Sellers\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“A masterly piece of writing, which is structured firmly on research findings and original personal interviews, and which glows with intuitive understand­ing and scholarly interpretation and con­clusions. It constitutes a highly signifi­cant contribution to the history of the Syrian-Lebanese community in the United States.”—\u003cb\u003eDr. Afif Tannous\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p4\" style=\"\" margin:\u003eA unique study in American immigra­tion and assimilation history that also provides a special view of one of the smaller ethnic groups in American society.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p5\" style=\"\" margin: text-indent:\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p5\" style=\"\" margin: text-indent:\u003eNaff 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Southern Illinois University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52555647287576,"sku":"9780809318964","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/becoming-american-the-early-arab-immigrant-experience-paperback-softback-9780809318964","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}