Tucked into strip malls along Brookhurst Street are the scattered agglomeration of restaurants, markets, bakeries, butcher shops, hookah lounges, educational centers, hair salons, and clothing stores catering to groups who come from the Middle East and North Africa. Proliferating over the last twenty-five years, this Anaheim thoroughfare is colloquially known as Little Arabia. The small strip of commerce is supported by the nation’s largest Arab population residing throughout Southern California. The emergence of Little Arabia is similar to what scholars refer to as “ethnoburbs,” “invisiburbs,” and “design assimilated suburbs.” Little Arabia, however, represents something different: what this paper refers to as an “ethnoanchor.” To illustrate the descriptive utility of the ethnoanchor typology, this paper unpacks the historical, spatial, social, and political dynamics of Little Arabia to illustrate how contemporary migration patterns are influencing suburban regions, collectively illustrating the constitution of a new kind of American dream.

餐馆，市场，面包店，肉铺，水烟休息室，教育中心，美发沙龙和服装店的零星聚集地聚集在布鲁克赫斯特街沿线的大型购物中心中，以迎合来自中东和北非的人群。在过去的25年中，这条阿纳海姆（Anaheim）通道激增，俗称“小阿拉伯”。遍布南加州的该国最大的阿拉伯人口为小商业区提供了支持。小阿拉伯半岛的出现类似于学者所称的“ ethnoburbs”，“ invisiburbs”和“设计同化的郊区”。但是，小阿拉伯代表的是不同的东西：本文所称的“民族锚”。为了说明民族锚类型学的描述性效用，本文对历史，空间，社会，