Possible Histories Arab Americans and the Queer Ecology of Peddling (Volume 70)

Charlotte Karem Albrecht, "Possible Histories: Arab Americans and the Queer Ecology of Peddling (Volume 70) "
English | ISBN: 0520391721 | 2023 | 204 pages | PDF | 17 MB
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Many of the hundreds of thousands of Syrians who immigrated to the US beginning in the 1870s worked as peddlers. Men were able to transgress Syrian norms related to marriage practices while they were traveling, while Syrian women accessed more economic autonomy though their participation in peddling networks. In
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