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This multifaceted study of Syrian immigration to the United States places Syrians- and Arabs more generally-at the center of discussions about race and racial formation from which they have long been marginalized. Between Arab and White focuses on the first wave of Arab immigration and settlement in the United States in the years before World War II, but also continues the story up to the present. It presents an original analysis of the ways in which people mainly from current day Lebanon and Syria-the largest group of Arabic-speaking immigrants before World War II-came to view themselves in racial terms and position themselves within racial hierarchies as part of a broader process of ethnic identity formation.

Syrian Americans --- Ethnology --- Syrians --- Race identity --- History. --- Ethnic identity --- United States --- Race relations. --- Race question --- History of North America --- anno 1800-1899 --- anno 1900-1909 --- anno 1910-1919 --- anno 1920-1929 --- anno 1930-1939 --- anno 1940-1949 --- Syria --- 20th century american culture. --- american immigration policy. --- arab immigration. --- arab settlement. --- arabs. --- diaspora. --- diasporic nationalism. --- emergent arabism. --- ethic identity formation. --- global disaster. --- historical. --- history. --- immigration and immigrants. --- immigration restriction. --- internal migration. --- international migration. --- jim crow south. --- lebanon. --- lynching. --- marginalized groups. --- marriage. --- political. --- race in america. --- racial formation. --- respectability. --- syria. --- syrian americans. --- syrian immigration. --- united states of america.