TY  - BOOK
AU  - Curtis,Edward E.
TI  - Muslims of the heartland: how Syrian immigrants made a home in the American Midwest 
SN  - 9781479812561
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - New York
PB  - New York University Press
KW  - Syrian Americans
KW  - Middle West
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Muslims
KW  - Muslim families
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Race relations
KW  - Informational works
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Muslim South Dakota from Kadoka to Sioux Falls -- Homesteading western North Dakota -- Peddling in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, a town of ethnic tradition -- Michigan City, Indiana, and Syrian Muslim industrial workers -- Muslim life and the agricultural depression in North Dakota -- Cedar Rapids' grocery business and the growth of a Muslim midwestern town -- From Sioux Falls and Michigan City to Detroit, capital of the Muslim Midwest -- Conclusion: a big party in the 1950s
N2  - "This book rejects the stereotype of the Midwest as bleached-out Christian country. It unearths a surprising and intimate history of the first two generations of Syrian Muslims in the Midwest who, in spite of discrimination, created a life that was Arab, American, and Muslim all at the same time"--
ER  -