Possible Histories - Arab Americans and the Queer Ecology of Peddling
Author(s): Charlotte Karem Albrecht
Multicultural Studies, Race & People of Colour
Many Syrians who immigrated to the US beginning in the 1870s worked as peddlers. Traveling enabled men to transgress Syrian norms related to marriage, while Syrian women's roles in peddling led to more economic autonomy. In Possible Histories, Charlotte Karem Albrecth explores this peddling economy to reveal the sexual ideologies imbricated in Arab American racial histories. Possible Histories marshals a queer affective approach to community and family history to show how Syrian immigrant peddlers and their networks of labor and care appeared in interconnected discourses of modernity, sexuality, gender, class, and race. Karem Albrecht theorizes this profession, and its place in Arab American historiography, as a "queer ecology" of laboring practices, intimacies, and knowledge production. This book ultimately proposes a new understanding of the long arm of Arab American history that puts sexuality and gender at the heart of ways of navigating US racial systems.
May 2023
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- : University of California Press
- : University of California Press
- : 0.362874
- : 01 February 2023
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- : 01 May 2023
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- : 204
- : English
- : Paperback
- : Charlotte Karem Albrecht