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How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America

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How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in AmericaAn eye opening look at how young Arab and Muslim Americans are forging lives for themselves in a country that often mistakes them for the enemy Just over a century ago, W. E. B. Du Bois posed a probing question in his classic The Souls of Black Folk How does it feel to be a problem? Now, Moustafa Bayoumi asks the same about America's new "problem" Arab and Muslim Americans. Bayoumi takes readers into the lives of seven twenty somethings living in

An eye-opening look at how young Arab- and Muslim- Americans are forging lives for themselves in a country that often mistakes them for the enemy

Just over a century ago, W.E.B. Du Bois posed a probing question in his classic The Souls of Black Folk How does it feel to be a problem? Now, Moustafa Bayoumi asks the same about America's new "problem"-Arab- and Muslim-Americans. Bayoumi takes readers into the lives of seven twenty-somethings living in Brooklyn, home to the largest Arab-American population in the United States. He moves beyond stereotypes and clich s to reveal their often unseen struggles, from being subjected to government surveillance to the indignities of workplace discrimination. Through it all, these young men and women persevere through triumphs and setbacks as they help weave the tapestry of a new society that is, at its heart, purely American.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 07/01/2009
ISBN: 9780143115410
Pages: 290
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.06h x 5.38w x 0.68d

Review Citations: Christian Century 10/06/2009 pg. 40
Chronicle of Higher Education 10/29/2010 pg. 13
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