Possible Histories

Arab Americans and the Queer Ecology of Peddling

Charlotte Karem Albrecht

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University of California Press
20 April 2023

History; Gender studies: transsexuals & hermaphroditism; Gay & Lesbian studies; Ethnic studies; Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies

Series: American Crossroads

"A 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. "

By: Charlotte Karem Albrecht
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Volume: 70
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 363g
ISBN: 9780520391727
ISBN 10: 0520391721
Series: American Crossroads
Pages: 204
Publication Date: 20 April 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Charlotte Karem Albrecht is Assistant Professor of American Culture and Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.