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Author: Author's name as listed in Library of Congress records
Conklin, Nancy Faires
Faires, Nora Helen
Title:
'Colored' and Catholic: the Lebanese in Birmingham,
Alabama
Published in: if part or section of a book or monograph
Crossing the waters : Arabic-speaking immigrants to the
United States before 1940, edited by Eric J. Hooglund
Published By: Original publisher
Crossing the waters : Arabic-speaking immigrants to the
United States before 1940, edited by Eric J. Hooglund
Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. 1987.
69-84 p.
By line: Author's name as appearing in the actual publication
Nancy Faires Conklin and Nora Faires
HRAF Publication Information: New Haven, Conn.:
Human Relations Area Files, 1999. Computer File
Culture: Culture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC) with the alphanumberic OWC identifier in parenthesis.
Arab Americans (NK09)
Subjects: Document-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
External migration (167);
Retail marketing (443);
Ethnic stratification (563);
Abstract: Brief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This essay describes the Lebanese community in Birmingham,
Alabama from its establishment in the late nineteenth century to the early twentieth. The
authors examine immigration patterns, and the political and social climate of Birmingham in
which the Lebanese were to make their home, dominated in the early years by issues of race
and segregation. 'The reaction of the Lebanese to the stresses of economic change and
social ostracism was not to assimilate, but to establish and maintain strong, stable
community institutions' (pp. 69-70).These institutions, and particularly the Maronite
church, which formed the focal point for the community, are described in the final section
of this work.
Document Number: HRAF's in-house numbering system derived from the processing order of documents
14
Document ID: HRAF's unique document identifier. The first part is the OWC identifier and the second part is the document number in three digits.
nk09-014
Document Type: May include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs or chapters/parts of monographs.
Essay
Language: Language that the document is written in
English
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
Field Date: The date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
no date
Evaluation: In this alphanumeric code, the first part designates the type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigene, and so on. The second part is a ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data
Unknown-5
Analyst: The HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection.
John Beierle ; 1998
Coverage Date: The date or dates that the information in the document pertains to (often not the same as the field date).
lage nineteenth - early twentieth
centuries
Coverage Place: Location of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
Birmingham, Alabama, United States
LCSH: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Arab Americans
