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Muslim American Youth : Understanding Hyphenated Identities through Multiple Methods.
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, t...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
NYU Press,
2008.
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| Series: | Qualitative studies in psychology.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments; Foreword by Carola Suárez-Orozco: Designated "Others": Young, Muslim, and American; 1 Growing Up in the Shadow of Moral Exclusion; Meet Aisha: Challenging and Laughing Her Way through Suspicion, Surveillance, and Low Expectations; 2 Muslim Americans: History, Demography, and Diversity; Meet Sahar: A Hyphen with Holes in It ... Allowing Her to Sometimes Fall Through; 3 Moral Exclusion in a "Nation of Immigrants": An American Paradox; Meet Yeliz: A Young Woman of Conviction, Distinct across Contexts; 4 The Weight of the Hyphen: Discrimination and Coping.
- Meet Ayyad: "A Regular Cute Guy"5 Negotiating the Muslim American Hyphen: Integrated, Parallel, and Confl ictual Paths; Meet Taliya: Seeking Safe Spaces for Social Analysisand Action; 6 Contact Zones: Negotiating the Space betweenSelf and Others; Meet Masood: Grounded in Islam, Crossing Borders; 7 Researching Hyphenated Selves across Contexts; Appendix A: Survey Measures; Appendix B: Individual Interview Protocol; Appendix C: Focus-Group Protocols; Appendix D: Identity Maps Coding Sheet; Notes; References; Index; About the Authors.