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How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America Paperback - 2009
by Moustafa Bayoumi
In prose that is at once blunt and lyrical, Bayoumi presents the story of howyoung Arab and Muslim Americans are forging lives for themselves in a countrythat often mistakes them for the enemy.
Summary
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 clichés 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.
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 clichés 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.
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- Title How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America
- Author Moustafa Bayoumi
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: First
- Pages 336
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, New York
- Date 2009-07-01
- ISBN 9780143115410 / 0143115413
- Weight 0.55 lbs (0.25 kg)
- Dimensions 8.06 x 5.38 x 0.68 in (20.47 x 13.67 x 1.73 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Reading level 1010
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Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: Arabic
- Library of Congress subjects United States - Race relations, Race awareness - United States
- Dewey Decimal Code 305.892
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Citations
- Christian Century, 10/06/2009, Page 40
- Chronicle of Higher Education, 10/29/2010, Page 13
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