Muslim American youth : understanding hyphenated identities through multiple methods / Selcuk R. Sirin and Michelle Fine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sirin, Selcuk R.

Contributor:

Fine, Michelle.

Series:

Qualitative studies in psychology.

Qualitative studies in psychology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Muslims--United States--Ethnic identity.

Muslims.

Muslims--United States--Psychology.

Muslims--United States--Social conditions.

Muslims--United States--Interviews.

Youth--United States--Psychology.

Youth.

Youth--United States--Social conditions.

Youth--United States--Interviews.

Ethnicity--Research--United States--Methodology.

Ethnicity.

Social psychology--Research--United States--Methodology.

Social psychology.

United States--Ethnic relations--Research--Methodology.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (263 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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

ISBN:

9780814708859

0814708854

9780814740828

0814740820

OCLC:

782877903