Module 4: Palestinian Americans in Chicago, Illinois
Does place matter in becoming a community?
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[ ay-lee-uhn land law uhv nine-teen-thr-teen ]
California passed the first law that prohibited “aliens ineligible to citizenship” from owning or leasing land, a law that targeted Americans of Japanese descent. From this point on until 1923, many states (Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Louisiana, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming) across the US passed similar laws and restrictions.


Louise Cainkar is Professor of Social Welfare and Justice and Sociology at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She is the author of three books and more than forty scholarly articles on Arab and Muslim Americans and has received numerous awards for her work.
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The Asian American Studies Center acknowledges the Gabrielino/Tongva peoples as the traditional land caretakers of Tovaangar (Los Angeles basin, So. Channel Islands) and pay our respects to the honuukvetam (ancestors), ‘ahiihirom (elders), and ‘eyoohiinkem (relatives/relations) past, present, and emerging.
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