An Archive of Difference: Syrian Women, the Peddling Economy and US Social Welfare, 1880-1935.
Historians have scrutinised the racial classifications of Arab immigrants in the census, in immigration documents and in early-twentieth-century naturalisation cases. However, recent scholarship has shown that other archives - ones that do not focus on interactions with the law - reveal a different...
| Publicado en: | Gender & History Vol. 28; no. 1; pp. 127 - 150 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Apr2016
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