Sarah M. A. Gualtieri is Associate Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, History, and Middle East Studies at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Between Arab and White: Race and Ethnicity in the Early Syrian American Diaspora (2009).

Sarah M. A. Gualtieri is Associate Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, History, and Middle East Studies at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Between Arab and White: Race and Ethnicity in the Early Syrian American Diaspora (2009).

Introduction: Arab Amairka
1. The Syrian Pacific
2. Murder at the Sleepy Lagoon
3. Meeting at the Mahrajan
4. Fragments of the Past, Identities of the Present
5. Palimpsests in Iconic California
Conclusion: Mestizaje in Arab American Families