AMCULT 215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Arab Americans, The Pen League, Park51
3 Dec 2017
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4 years after the quota for immigrants from arab countries. Shows how arab-americans are still fond of america. For thee america was sung in schools in ny and was considered for becoming the official national anthem of the us in 1912. Has been shapedby continuing interactions between conditions in the old and new homelands and by the interplay between their perceptions of themselves and how others see them . They would have called themselves syrian-american in the 1920s, not arab- People (americans) had the impression that syrians were dirty, didn"t contribute to society, didn"t watch their kids. They really played with the idea of them being exotic. Peddlers would go to a wholesale and sell the stuff themselves door to door to mostly housewives. Female peddlers were not the norm, but at one time about one third of working. Their customers were housewives who were more likely to open their doors to a women.
