Muslims of the heartland : how Syrian immigrants made a home in the American Midwest / Edward E. Curtis IV.
Uncovers the surprising history of Muslim life in the early American MidwestThe American Midwest is often thought of as uniformly white, and shaped exclusively by Christian values. However, this view of the region as an unvarying landscape fails to consider a significant community at its very heart....
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: My Syrian Muslim Heartland
- Part I: 1900 to World War I
- 1. Muslim South Dakota from Kadoka to Sioux Falls
- 2. Homesteading Western North Dakota
- 3. Peddling in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, a Town of Ethnic Tradition
- 4. Michigan City, Indiana, and Syrian Muslim Industrial Workers
- Part II: 1920s to World War II
- 5. Muslim Life and the Agricultural Depression in North Dakota
- 6. Cedar Rapids' Grocery Business and the Growth of a Muslim Midwestern Town
- 7. From Sioux Falls and Michigan City to Detroit, Capital of the Muslim Midwest
- Conclusion: A Big Party in the 1950s.