Document Type
Honors Project - Open Access
Abstract
The Lebanese and Lebanese-American community in the United States is known for both its entrepreneurship and its unusually long-lasting cultural memory. Though relatively small communities, the Lebanese and Lebanese-Americans have had a disproportionately large impact on the landscape of the Twin Cities. This paper examines how Christian Lebanese communities in Northeast Minneapolis and the West Side of Saint Paul have used placemaking as a means to retain their cultural heritage, form an original Lebanese-American identity, and alternatively resist and embrace assimilation. It also considers the fluidity of Lebanese-American identity, and how the gray areas of rigid American societal politics have enabled Lebanese placemaking, and demanded certain types of assimilation while simultaneously preventing others.
Recommended Citation
Nassiff, Anna, "'I am here to build with you": Placemaking and segmented assimilation of Lebanese and Lebanese-Americans in the Twin Cities" (2014). Geography Honors Projects. 43.
https://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/geography_honors/43
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