Arab and Jewish Immigrants in Latin America: Images and Realities

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Ignacio Klich, Jeffrey Lesser
Routledge, 2013 M10 11 - 278 páginas
This collection of essays addresses various aspects of Arab and Jewish immigration and acculturation in Latin America. The volume examines how the Latin American elites who were keen to change their countries' ethnic mix felt threatened by the arrival of Arabs and Jews.
 

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Overcoming SelfImposed Amnesia
1
Elite Images of Arabs and Jews in Brazil
38
Arabs and Jews in the Development of the Colombian Caribbean 18501950
57
The Arabs and Jews in Haiti
80
Formative Years 1880s1930s
94
Christians from Lebanon and Jews from Syria in Mexico 19001938
125
The Economic and Social Condition of Jewish and Arab Immigrants in Bolivia 18901980
146
Ethnic History Nationalism and Transnationalism in Argentine Arab and Jewish Cultures
167
The SelfImage of Arab and Jewish Ancestry in Recent Argentine Literature
189
Problems and Perspectives
204
The Intersection of the Imaginary and the Real Country
227
Notes on Contributors
249
Index
253
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