{"id":24309,"date":"2012-07-13T00:34:37","date_gmt":"2012-07-13T00:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=24309"},"modified":"2017-04-10T16:30:34","modified_gmt":"2017-04-10T16:30:34","slug":"the-arab-and-the-brit-the-last-of-the-welcome-immigrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=24309","title":{"rendered":"The Arab and the Brit: The Last of the Welcome Immigrants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/syracuseuniversitypress.syr.edu\/fall-2012\/arab-brit.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Arab and the Brit: The Last of the Welcome Immigrants<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/syracuseuniversitypress.syr.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Syracuse University Press<\/a><br \/>\n2012<br \/>\n248 pages<br \/>\n6 x 9; 12 black-and-white illustrations<br \/>\nCloth ISBN: 978-0-8156-0974-2<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bill Rezak<\/strong>, Former President<br \/>\n<em>Alfred State College, Alfred, New York<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/syracuseuniversitypress.syr.edu\/fall-2012\/arab-brit.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/syracuseuniversitypress.syr.edu\/fall-2012\/images\/arab.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Born of a Palestinian father and a British mother, Rezak has always been intrigued by the different worlds from which his parents came. His father\u2019s ancestors were highwaymen on the Arabian Peninsula in the eighteenth century. They sparred unsuccessfully with ruling Ottoman Turks and escaped with their families to America. His mother\u2019s parents were sent separately from Great Britain into indentured servitude in Canada, alone at the ages of ten and sixteen. They worked off their servitude, met, married, and moved to New York State. In <em>The Arab and the Brit<\/em>, a memoir that spans multiple generations and countries, Rezak traces the remarkable lives of his ancestors. Narrating their experiences against the backdrop of two world wars and an emerging modern Middle East, the author gives readers a textured and vivid immigrant story.<\/p>\n<p>Rezak recalls his paternal grandmother apprehending would-be Russian saboteurs during World War I, his grandfather\u2019s time at Dr. Bernardo\u2019s home, a shelter for destitute children, and his father\u2019s work with the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Association following World War II. Told with humor and captivating detail, <em>The Arab and the Brit<\/em> chronicles the trials and triumphs of one family\u2019s struggle to succeed in the New World.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born of a Palestinian father and a British mother, Rezak has always been intrigued by the different worlds from which his parents came. His father\u2019s ancestors were highwaymen on the Arabian Peninsula in the eighteenth century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1245,11,19,459,8,17,10,20],"tags":[11254,11253,11255],"class_list":["post-24309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography","category-books","category-canada","category-history","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-uk","category-usa","tag-bill-rezak","tag-syracuse-university-press","tag-william-rezak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53388,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24309\/revisions\/53388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}