Muslim American Youth : Understanding Hyphenated Identities through Multiple Methods / Selcuk R. Sirin, Michelle Fine.
2008
E184.M88 S57 2008
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Muslim American Youth : Understanding Hyphenated Identities through Multiple Methods / Selcuk R. Sirin, Michelle Fine.
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9780814708859
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New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2008]
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©2008
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English
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In English.
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10.18574/nyu/9780814708859.001.0001 doi
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E184.M88 S57 2008
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305.6/97073
Summary
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.
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Qualitative Studies in Psychology ; ; 12
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword
1. Growing Up in the Shadow of Moral Exclusion
Meet Aisha
2. Muslim Americans
Meet Sahar
3. Moral Exclusion in a "Nation of Immigrants"
Meet Yeliz
4. The Weight of the Hyphen
Meet Ayyad
5. Negotiating the Muslim American Hyphen
Meet Taliya
6. Contact Zones
Meet Masood
7. Researching Hyphenated Selves across Contexts
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
Appendix D
Notes
References
Index
About the Authors
Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword
1. Growing Up in the Shadow of Moral Exclusion
Meet Aisha
2. Muslim Americans
Meet Sahar
3. Moral Exclusion in a "Nation of Immigrants"
Meet Yeliz
4. The Weight of the Hyphen
Meet Ayyad
5. Negotiating the Muslim American Hyphen
Meet Taliya
6. Contact Zones
Meet Masood
7. Researching Hyphenated Selves across Contexts
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
Appendix D
Notes
References
Index
About the Authors