Muslim American Youth: Understanding Hyphenated Identities Through Multiple Methods

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Exploring Muslim American youth, identity, and resilience.

This book is a poignant exploration into the lives of young Muslim Americans post-9/11, offering both heart-rendering personal accounts and solid statistical data. If you're looking to deepen your understanding of identity formation among marginalized groups or simply to gain a more empathetic view of the Muslim American experience, these pages will provide enlightening insights and powerful narratives that are often absent from mainstream discussions.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Muslim American Youth: Understanding Hyphenated Identities Through Multiple Methods

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ISBN: 9780814740408
Publisher: NYU Press
Date of Publication: 2008-07-12
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Sociology, Religion
Goodreads rating: 3.82
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Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and the subsequent “war on terror,” growing up Muslim in the U.S. has become a far more challenging task for young people. They must contend with popular cultural representations of Muslim men as terrorists and Muslim women as oppressed, the suspicious gaze of peers, teachers, and strangers, and police, and the fierce embodiment of fears in their homes. With great attention to quantitative and qualitative detail, the authors provide heartbreaking and funny stories of discrimination and resistance, delivering hard to ignore statistical evidence of moral exclusion for young people whose lives have been situated on the intimate fault lines of global conflict, and who carry international crises in their backpacks and in their souls. The volume offers a critical conceptual framework to aid in understanding Muslim American identity formation processes, a framework which can also be applied to other groups of marginalized and immigrant youth. In addition, through their innovative data analytic methods that creatively mix youth drawings, intensive individual interviews, focused group discussions, and culturally sensitive survey items, the authors provide an antidote to “qualitative vs. quantitative” arguments that have unnecessarily captured much time and energy in psychology and other behavioral sciences. Muslim American Youth provides a much-needed road map for those seeking to understand how Muslim youth and other groups of immigrant youth negotiate their identities as Americans.
 

Exploring Muslim American youth, identity, and resilience.

This book is a poignant exploration into the lives of young Muslim Americans post-9/11, offering both heart-rendering personal accounts and solid statistical data. If you're looking to deepen your understanding of identity formation among marginalized groups or simply to gain a more empathetic view of the Muslim American experience, these pages will provide enlightening insights and powerful narratives that are often absent from mainstream discussions.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.