How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781594201769 (1594201765)
ASIN: 1594201765
Publish date: August 14th 2008
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Biography,
Academic,
School,
Book Club,
Religion,
Politics,
Sociology,
Biography Memoir,
Race,
Islam
This is an interesting book about the lives of young Muslims of Arab descent living in Brooklyn in the first few years after 9/11. If that sounds very specific, well, it is, but despite what may initially seem to be a narrow focus, the book seems to me to do a good job of addressing various aspects ...
This would be a great book to give to teens to explain what creative non-fiction is. I liked taking my time to read one or half of one person's story at lunch. They were all different, and all nuanced, but my favorite was the girl who fought to be part of the student council at her school. This is ...
This would be a great book to give to teens to explain what creative non-fiction is. I liked taking my time to read one or half of one person's story at lunch. They were all different, and all nuanced, but my favorite was the girl who fought to be part of the student council at her school. This is ...
started off interesting, was good to read about the young Arab experience in America post 9/11, but the stories got a bit redundant towards the end.
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 co...
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