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Lodging hospitality -Cleveland-
ISSN: 01480766 Year: 1993 Publisher: New York, N.Y.

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Americans on the road : from autocamp to motel, 1910 - 1945.
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ISBN: 0262021234 Year: 1979 Publisher: Cambridge MIT press


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Life behind the lobby : Indian motel owners and the American dream
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ISBN: 0804778825 0804778833 0804782024 9780804782029 9780804778824 9780804778824 9780804778831 Year: 2012 Publisher: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press,

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Indian Americans own about half of all the motels in the United States. Even more remarkable, most of these motel owners come from the same region in India and-although they are not all related-seventy percent of them share the surname of Patel. Most of these motel owners arrived in the United States with few resources and, broadly speaking, they are self-employed, self-sufficient immigrants who have become successful-they live the American dream. However, framing this group as embodying the American dream has profound implications. It perpetuates the idea of American exceptionali

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