Growing up Muslim
Subtitle: Muslim college students in America tell their life stories
By: edited by Andrew Garrod and Robert Kilkenny ; introduction by Eboo Patel
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9780801452529; 9780801479151
Subjects: Education (Higher); Students; Dartmouth College; Muslim college students; Muslim youth; Biography
Description: "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 Patel. In 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.
Table of contents: title: Far from getting lost / Zahra Ahmed; title: A world more complex than I thought / Ala Alrababah; title: My expanding world / Asyah Saif; title: The novice's story / Abdul Moustafa; title: A Muslim citizen of the democratic west / Aly Rahim; title: Living like a kite / Shakir Quraishi; title: The burden / Abdel Jamali; title: My permanent home / Sabeen Hassanali; title: On the outside / Arif Khan; title: Being Muslim at Dartmouth / Adam W.; title: Shadowlands / Sarah Chaudhry; title: The headscarf / Sara L.; title: A child of experience / Tafaoul Abdelmagid; title: A debt to those who know us / Nasir Nasser.