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Subject(s)

• Muslims—United States—Ethnic identity [Browse]
• Muslims—United States—Psychology [Browse]
• Muslims—United States—Social conditions [Browse]
• Muslims—United States—Interviews [Browse]
• Youth—United States—Psychology [Browse]
• Youth—United States—Social conditions [Browse]
• Youth—United States—Interviews [Browse]
• Ethnicity—Research—United States—Methodology [Browse]
• Social psychology—Research—United States—Methodology [Browse]
• United States—Ethnic relations—Research—Methodology [Browse]

Related name

• Fine, Michelle [Browse]

Series

Qualitative studies in psychology. [More in this series]

Summary note

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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Bibliographic references

Include bibliographical references (p. [223]-236) and index.

Language note

English

Contents

• Growing up in the shadow of moral exclusion
• Muslim-Americans : history, demography, and diversity
• Moral exclusion in a "nation of immigrants" : an American paradox
• The weight of the hyphen : discrimination and coping
• Negotiating the Muslim American hyphen : integrated, parallel, and conflictual paths
• Contact zones : negotiating the space between self and others
• 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.

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ISBN

• 0-8147-0885-4
• 0-8147-4082-0

OCLC

• 782877903
• 298283174

Doi

• 10.18574/9780814708859

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