Arabs were racialized through violence in the Jim Crow South

Evidence

Racial violence targeting Arabs, South Asians, and Muslims in the U.S. escalated throughout the twentieth century. In the first half of the century, the lynching of Nola Romey and the shooting of his wife in Lake City, Florida, and the bombing of a Syrian family in Marietta, Georgia, in 1929 were defining events that racialized Arabs in the Jim Crow South (Gualtieri 2009). — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 228

Categorization

• SHARE: A historian friend focused on race in the US South would find the 1920s lynching and bombing of Arab/Syrian families in Florida and Georgia sharply relevant.