USA: BOOK
Moustafa Bayoumi, an associate professor
of English at Brooklyn College, is author of the recent book
“How Does It Feel to be a Problem:
Being Young and Arab in America”
(The Penguin Press).
Just over a century ago, W.E.B. Du Bois posed
a probing question in his classis The Souls of Black
Folk: "How does it feel to be a problem?” he asked.
Today, Arab and Muslim Americans, the newest
minorities in the American imagination, are the latest
“problem” of American society, and their answers
to Du Bois’s question increasingly define what being
American means today.
In a wholly revealing portrait of a community that lives
next door and yet a world away, Moustafa Bayoumi
introduces us to the individual lives of seven twenty
something men and women living in Brooklyn, home
to the largest number of Arab Americans in the United States. ...
Read + Moustafa Bayoumi
Moustafa Bayoumi, an associate professor
of English at Brooklyn College, is author of the recent book
“How Does It Feel to be a Problem:
Being Young and Arab in America”
(The Penguin Press).
Just over a century ago, W.E.B. Du Bois posed
a probing question in his classis The Souls of Black
Folk: "How does it feel to be a problem?” he asked.
Today, Arab and Muslim Americans, the newest
minorities in the American imagination, are the latest
“problem” of American society, and their answers
to Du Bois’s question increasingly define what being
American means today.
In a wholly revealing portrait of a community that lives
next door and yet a world away, Moustafa Bayoumi
introduces us to the individual lives of seven twenty
something men and women living in Brooklyn, home
to the largest number of Arab Americans in the United States. ...
Read + Moustafa Bayoumi
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