Muslim American Youth

Michelle Fine is a Distinguished Professor of Social Psychology, Women's Studies and Urban Education at the Graduate Center, CUNY. She is the author of a long list of award-winning books in the fields of education and psychology, including Framing Dropouts, Becoming Gentlemen, and Speedbumps: A Student Friendly Guide to Qualitative Research and The Unknown City, both with Lois Weis. She is also coeditor of NYU Press's Qualitative Studies in Psychology series.Selcuk R. Sirin is Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Psychology at New York University.

This work complexly and richly captures the diversity in the lived identities of Muslim-American youth, highlighting the power and potential of mixed methodologies in studying the phenomenon of life on the hyphen. (Harvard Educational Review) This book provides a unique, powerful, rich, and nuanced understanding of identity development among Muslim-American youth. The publication of Muslim American Youth is a landmark event in developmental science. - Richard M. Lerner,Bergstrom Chair in Applied Developmental Science, Tufts University Sirin and Fine...render visible the complex lives of a profoundly maligned and misunderstood group—Muslim-American youth. They deploy surveys, focus groups, in-depth interviews, and identity maps to explore how Muslim-American youth are creating and re-creating themselves within these politically and socially charged times . . . This is a must read. - M. Brinton Lykes,Lynch School of Education and Center for Human Rights and International Justice, Boston College This book will be particularly useful for any professional who needs well-researched support for what their instinct tells them their community needs. (VOYA Voices of Youth Advocates) With heart and eloquence, the authors illuminate vital concerns about our society's treatment of Muslim-American youth. (Youth Today)

• Acknowledgments Foreword by Carola Suarez-Orozco: Designated "Others": Young, Muslim, and American Growing Up in the Shadow of Moral Exclusion Meet Aisha: Challenging and Laughing Her Way through Suspicion, Surveillance, and Low Expectations Muslim Americans: History, Demography, and Diversity Meet Sahar: A Hyphen with Holes in It...Allowing Her to Sometimes Fall Through Moral Exclusion in a "Nation of Immigrants": An American Paradox Meet Yeliz: A Young Woman of Conviction, Distinct across Contexts The Weight of the Hyphen: Discrimination and Coping Meet Ayyad: "A Regular Cute Guy" Negotiating the Muslim American Hyphen: Integrated, Parallel, and Conflictual Paths Meet Taliya: Seeking Safe Spaces for Social Analysis and Action Contact Zones: Negotiating the Space between Self and Others Meet Masood: Grounded in Islam, Crossing Borders 7 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 References Index About the Authors