Սամուէլ’s Reviews > Between Arab and White: Race and Ethnicity in the Early Syrian American Diaspora (American Crossroads) > Status Update

"Like other immigrant groups (the Irish, Italians, and Jews) Syrians 'grasped for the whiteness at the margins of their experiences' rather than challenge the premise that whiteness was a legitimate prerequisite for social, economic, and political privilege." Pg. 133

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