A Trace of Arabic in Granite: Lebanese Migration to the Green Mountains, 1890–1940 (Amy Rowe 2008)
"Illustrating the presence of Middle Easterners and their descendants in Vermont shifts one’s perspective on state history, an especially timely endeavor in light of contemporary American culture and politics."
Lebanese-Americans’ Identity, Citizenship And Political Behavior (Rita Stephan 2009)
"The identity of Lebanese-Americans as members of an ethnic group is sometimes counterposed to their status as American citizens. This article investigates how does the manner by which Lebanese-American identify themselves impact their political engagement? This research is guided by three hypotheses— (1) Lebanese cultural identification is strongly prevalent among Lebanese-American immigrants and descendants; (2) Lebanese-Americans political mobilization is likely to be contingent upon, and associated with, politics in Lebanon and American relations towards it; (3) Lebanese-Americans contextualize their political activism within the Arab-American framework in promoting their community’s interest, but they separate themselves from other Arab-Americans in their fight for Lebanese issues."Becoming American: The Early Arab Immigrant Experience (Alixa Naff 1985)
"A unique study in American immigration and assimilation history that also provides a special view of one of the smaller ethnic groups in American society.
Naff focuses on the pre-World War I pioneering generation of Arabic-speaking immigrants, the generation that set the patterns for settlement and assimilation. Unlike many immigrants who were drawn to the United States by dreams of industrial jobs or to escape religious or economic persecution, most of these artisans and owners of small, disconnected plots of land came to America to engage in the enterprise of peddling. Most planned to stay two or three years and return to their homelands."
