LEADER 03648nam 22005175 450 001 9910682581703321 005 20240912173307.0 010 $a9780520391741 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520391741 035 $a(CKB)26384937800041 035 $a(DE-B1597)642409 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520391741 035 $a(OCoLC)1374540007 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31591745 035 $a(Perlego)4431245 035 $a(EXLCZ)9926384937800041 100 $a20230328h20232023 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAmerican Crossroads. Possible Histories $eArab Americans and the Queer Ecology of Peddling /$fCharlotte Karem Albrecht 210 1$aBerkeley, CA : $cUniversity of California Press, $d[2023] 210 4$dİ2023 215 $a1 online resource (204 p.) 225 0 $aAmerican Crossroads ;$v70 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tList of Illustrations -- $tPreface -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tNote on Terms and Translations -- $tIntroduction -- $t1 Traveler, Peddler, Stranger, Syrian: Queer Provocations and Sexual Threats -- $t2 ?A Woman without Limits? Syrian Women in the Peddling Economy -- $t3 Wandering in Diaspora: The Syrian American Elite and Sexual Normativity -- $t4 The Possibilities of Peddling: Imagining Homosocial and Homoerotic Pleasure in Arab America -- $tConclusion: Alixa Naff and the Parenthetical Syrian American Lesbian -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aA free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press?s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. 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 Possible Histories, Charlotte Karem Albrecht explores this peddling economy of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as a site for revealing how dominant ideas about sexuality are imbricated in Arab American racial histories. Karem Albrecht marshals a queer affective approach to community and family history to show how Syrian immigrant peddlers and their interdependent networks of labor and care appeared in interconnected discourses of modernity, sexuality, gender, class, and race. Possible Histories conceptualizes this profession, and its place in narratives of Arab American history, 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. 606 $aPeddlers$xSocial networks$zUnited States 606 $aSexual orientation$zUnited States 606 $aSyrian Americans$xEconomic conditions 606 $aSyrian Americans$xSocial conditions 606 $aHISTORY / LGBTQ+$2bisacsh 615 0$aPeddlers$xSocial networks 615 0$aSexual orientation 615 0$aSyrian Americans$xEconomic conditions. 615 0$aSyrian Americans$xSocial conditions. 615 7$aHISTORY / LGBTQ+. 676 $a305.89275691073 700 $aKarem Albrecht$b Charlotte, $4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01347120 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 912 $a9910682581703321 996 $aAmerican Crossroads. Possible Histories$93088660 997 $aUNINA