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

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Binding: Paperback
List Price: $23.99
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ISBN: 9780143115410
Publisher: Penguin Books
Language: English
Page Count: 300
Publication Date: 7/28/2009
Size: 8.01" l x 5.25" w x 0.71"
Series: N/A

Category Subject
Social Science Sociology
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 cliches 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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