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

door Moustafa Bayoumi

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The story of how young Arab and Muslim Americans are forging lives for themselves in a country that often mistakes them for the enemy.

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OK. Very New York centric. Could have done a better job providing some basic historical context. (

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bookman09919 | Aug 2, 2023 |

This book was upsetting to me. I understand that in the aftermath of the September 11th, 2001 attacks and the continual assaults by people of the faith that Muslim peoples were demonized and marginalized. When it comes right down to it I suppose people are afraid, but it is a shameful thing to have in your history. I am proud to be an American citizen, but when I see all these horrible ignorant things that people do to other people, it really makes me upset. It should not happen in a country like the United States, but even I am guilty of racial bias sometimes. (

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Floyd3345 | Jun 15, 2019 |

This is the common reading for incoming students at my university for the Fall of 2013. The author writes biographical profiles of about half a dozen Arab-Americans who live in Brooklyn, New York and how their lives changed in the wake of 9/11. The young people who served in the military had especially interesting profiles, I thought. This book shows how pervasive racism is in the U.S. (

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mojomomma | Jul 30, 2013 |

Excellent collection of portraits of young Arab-Americans who are subjected to discrimination and idiginities because of their religious beliefs. The perseverence of these young people is inspiring. This book resonates all the more now with the virulent Islamophobia that is pervasive all over the country these days. Bayoumi approaches his subject as W.E.B DuBois did in The Souls of Black Folk. (

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Sullywriter | Apr 3, 2013 |

This is a moving collection of the challenges and opportunities experienced by the Arab youth in America. Whether immigrants or US born, they face unique situations as youth in the US.

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"Between me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by others through the difficulty of rightly framing it. All, nevertheless, flutter round it. They approach me in a half-hesitant sort of way, eye me curiously or compassionately, and then, instead of saying it directly, How does it feel to be a problem? they say, I know an excellent colored man in my town; or, I fought at Mechanicsville; or, Do not these Southern outrages make your blood boil? At these I smile, or am interested, or reduce the boiling to a simmer, as the occasion may require. To the real question, How does it feel to be a problem? I answer seldom a word."
--W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk

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Sade and four of his twenty-something friends are at a hookah café almost underneath the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in Brooklyn.

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