Summary
Southwest Chicago suburb at the center of the new Palestinian suburban enclave that formed from the 1980s-1990s, home to the Mosque Foundation (Palestinian Chicago — Identity in Exile, PDF p.35).
Details
- The suburban transition reconfigured Palestinians’ interstitial position to the near southwestern suburbs separating white suburbia from the predominantly black and brown South Side (PDF p.42).
- Imm ‘Umar, a sixty-five-year-old Bridgeview resident, recounted her parents’ 1939-1948 migration chain story to Lybarger (PDF p.56).