TY - BOOK AU - Abdelmagid,Tafaoul AU - Ahmed,Zahra AU - Alrababa’h,Ala’ AU - Chaudhry,Sarah AU - Garrod,Andrew C. AU - Hassanali,Sabeen AU - Jamali,Abdel AU - Khan,Arif AU - Kilkenny,Robert AU - L,Sara AU - Moustafa,Abdul AU - Nasser,Nasir AU - Patel,Eboo AU - Quraishi,Shakir AU - Rahim,Aly AU - Saif,Asyah AU - W,Adam TI - Growing Up Muslim: Muslim College Students in America Tell Their Life Stories SN - 9780801470530 U1 - 378.1 9828297 23 PY - 2014///] CY - Ithaca, NY PB - Cornell University Press KW - Electronic books KW - Muslim college students KW - New Hampshire KW - Hanover KW - Biography KW - Muslim youth KW - Education (Higher) KW - Biography & Autobiography KW - Discrimination & Race Relations KW - Education & History Of Education KW - YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION / Biography & Autobiography / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional KW - bisacsh KW - Adolescents KW - American multiculturalism KW - Arab American KW - Aspiration KW - Assimilation KW - Belonging KW - Islamic Americans KW - Islamic Studies youth KW - Islamic Studies KW - Islamic youth KW - Islamophobia KW - Muslim American Experience after 9/11 KW - Muslim American Experience KW - after 9/11 KW - american islam KW - american like me KW - american muslim studies KW - american racism KW - anti-racism KW - autobiography KW - books about freshman KW - children of immigrants KW - college students KW - common reading KW - essay anthologies KW - essays KW - ethnic studies KW - freshman year reading KW - immigrant Muslims KW - islamic social studies KW - muslim american history KW - muslim americans KW - muslim identity KW - muslim immigrants KW - muslim representation KW - muslim studies KW - muslim women in america KW - muslim youths in america KW - muslim KW - muslims in america KW - nonfiction KW - post 9/11 KW - religious prejudice KW - xenophobia KW - young adult KW - young muslims KW - youth culture N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Introduction --; PART I. STRUGGLES WITH DIVERSITY --; 1. Far from Getting Lost --; 2. A World More Complex Than I Thought --; 3. My Expanding World --; 4. The Novice’s Story --; PART II. STRUGGLES WITH ISLAMOPHOBIA --; 5. A Muslim Citizen of the Democratic West --; 6. Living Like a Kite --; PART III. STRUGGLES WITH SEXUALITY AND RELATIONSHIPS --; 7. The Burden --; 8. My Permanent Home --; PART IV. STRUGGLES WITH PIETY --; 9. On the Outside --; 10. Being Muslim at Dartmouth --; 11. Shadowlands --; 12. The Headscarf --; PART V. STRUGGLES WITH FAMILY --; 13. A Child of Experience --; 14. A Debt to Those Who Know Us --; About the Editors and Author of the Introduction; restricted access N2 - "While 9/11 and its aftermath created a traumatic turning point for most of the writers in this book, it is telling that none of their essays begin with that moment. These young people were living, probing, and shifting their Muslim identities long before 9/11. I’ve heard it said that the second generation never asks the first about its story, but nearly all the essays in this book include long, intimate portrayals of Muslim family life, often going back generations. These young Muslims are constantly negotiating the differences between families for whom faith and culture were matters of honor and North America’s youth culture, with its emphasis on questioning, exploring, and inventing one’s own destiny."—from the Introduction by Eboo PatelIn Growing Up Muslim, Andrew Garrod and Robert Kilkenny present fourteen personal essays by college students of the Muslim faith who are themselves immigrants or are the children of immigrants to the United States. In their essays, the students grapple with matters of ethnicity, religious prejudice and misunderstanding, and what is termed Islamophobia. The fact of 9/11 and subsequent surveillance and suspicion of Islamic Americans (particularly those hailing from the Middle East and the Asian Subcontinent) have had a profound effect on these students, their families, and their communities of origin UR - https://doi.org/10.7591/9780801470530 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780801470530 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780801470530/original ER -