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

Name: How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being Young and Arab in America
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ISBN: 9780143115410

ISBN-10: 0143115413

ISBN-13: 9780143115410

Edition: 2009

Authors: Moustafa Bayoumi

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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…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 7/28/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.28" wide x 7.93" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English