PDF Between Arab and White: Race and Ethnicity in the Early Syrian American Diaspora (American Crossroads) by Sarah M. A. Gualtieri in History

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What is it like to become an adult in twenty-first-century America? This book takes us to four very different places—New York City; San Diego; rural Iowa; and Saint Paul; Minnesota—to explore the dramatic shifts in coming-of-age experiences across the country. Drawing from in-depth interviews with people in their twenties and early thirties; it probes experiences and decisions surrounding education; work; marriage; parenthood; and housing. The first study to systematically explore this phenomenon from a qualitative perspective; Coming of Age in America offers a clear view of how traditional patterns and expectations are changing; of the range of forces that are shaping these changes; and of how young people themselves view their lives.