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Returning to the Hawaiian Textiles and Alfred Shaheen exhibit library project, I finished my part of the bibliography today. So for any of you looking for more information about Alfred Shaheen, Hawaiian Textiles or the Arab Immigrant Textile tradition LOOK NO FURTHER, the full bibliography is below!
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Hawaii’s Alfred Shaheen: Fabric to Fashion

Further Reading on Aloha Attire and Hawaiian Textiles

Linda B. Arthur. Aloha attire: Hawaiian dress in the twentieth century. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Pub, 2000.

Linda A. Arthur, “East Meets West: The Aloha Shirt as an Instrument of Acculturation,” In Men’s Fashion Reader. Edited by Andrew Hinchcliffe Reilly and Sarah Cosbey, 295-310. New York : Fairchild Books, 2008.

Linda A. Arthur. 2006. “The Aloha Shirt and Ethnicity in Hawai’I”. Textile: Journal of Cloth and Culture. 4, 8-34.

DeSoto Brown, and Linda B. Arthur. The Art of the Aloha Shirt. Waipahu, Hawai’i: Island Heritage Pub, 2008.

Marcia Morgado. 2003. “From Kitsch to Chic: The Transformation of Hawaiian Shirt Aesthetics”. Clothing and Textiles Research Journal. 21, no. 2: 75-88.

Christen Tsuyuko Sasaki. Threads of Empire: Links between the Growth of U.S. Militarization and the Aloha Wear Industry in Hawai’i. Thesis (M.A.)–UCLA, 2006, 2006.

Nancy Schiffer. Hawaiian Shirt Designs. A Schiffer design book. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Pub, 1997.

Thomas H. Steele. The Hawaiian Shirt: Its Art and History. New York: Abbeville Press, 1984.

Dale Hope and Gregory Tozian. The Aloha Shirt: Spirit of the Islands. Hillsboro, Or: Beyond Words Pub, 2000.

Further Reading on Arab Immigrant Textile Industry on the East Coast, 1890s to 1930s

Donald B. Cole, Immigrant City: Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1845–1921. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1963.

Mary Ann Haick DiNapoli, “The Syrian-Lebanese Community of South Ferry from Its Origins to 1977,” In A Community of Many Worlds: Arab Americans in New York City, edited by Kathleen Benson and Philip M. Kayal, 11–27. New York: Museum of the City of New York/ Syracuse University Press, 2002.

Phillip K. Hitti, The Syrians in America. New York: George H. Doran, 1924.

Eric J. Hooglund, “From the Near East to Down East: Ethnic Arabs in Waterville, Maine,” In Crossing the Waters: Arabic-Speaking Immigrants to the United States before 1940, edited by Eric J. Hooglund, 85–103. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1987.

Akram Fouad Khater, Inventing Home: Emigration, Gender, and the Middle Class in Lebanon, 1870–1920. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.

Lucius Hopkins Miller, Our Syrian Population: A Study of the Syrian Communities of Greater New York. Reprint. San Francisco: R & E Research Assoc., 1969 [1904].

Alixa Naff, “New York: The Mother Colony,” In A Community of Many Worlds: Arab Americans in New York City, edited by Kathleen Benson and Philip M. Kayal, 3–10. New York: Museum of the City of New York/ Syracuse University Press, 2002.

Evelyn Shakir, Bint Arab: Arab and Arab American Women in the United States. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1997.

Adele Younis, The Coming of the Arabic-Speaking People to the United States, edited by Philip M. Kayal. New York: Center for Migration Studies, 1995 [1961].