Manifold Destiny Arabs at an American Crossroads of Exceptional Rule

• Autor principal: Karam, John Tofik (auth)
• Formato: Recurso Eletrônico Capítulo de Livro
• Idioma: inglês
• Publicado em: Vanderbilt University Press 2021
• Assuntos: Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography; Migration, immigration & emigration; Urban communities; Anthropology; Sociology; Urban Studies
• Acesso em linha: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

At the border where Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina meet under the scrutiny of the US and Mercosur (the large South American trade bloc), Arabs have long fulfilled what author John Tofik Karam calls a "manifold destiny." Karam casts Lebanese, Palestinians, and Syrians at this American bord...