AFAM 2000H Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Arab Americans, Racialism, Content Analysis
23 May 2016
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Arabs from different countries (22) in the arab world do not compromise some homogenous whole. Arab americans are not internally homogenous either. Although the majority of the arab world is muslim, most arab americans are actually christians. 24% arab americans are muslim, 63% christian, 13% no religion. One reason that the population of christian arab americans is significantly larger than that of muslims is because christians have been coming to the us for a longer period of time. Of the first stream of immigrants from the arab world to the. Early arab immigrants (1880-1924) came from rural areas and had very little formal education. They worked long, hard hours in labor-intensive jobs like peddling. Early immigrants hoped to protect their children from the financial and physical struggles. Many arab immigrants who came after early 1950s arrived with a college education. Us census: arab americans have a higher level of education that the average.
