aThis 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.a
--Richard M. Lerner, Bergstrom Chair in Applied Developmental
Science, Tufts University
aSirin 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.a
-- M. Brinton Lykes, Lynch School of Education and Center for Human
Rights and International Justice, Boston College
Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 and the
subsequent awar on terror, a 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,
aframework 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 aqualitative vs. quantitativea arguments
that have unnecessarily captured much time and energy in psychology
and other behavioral sciences.
Muslim American Youth provides a much-needed roadmap for those
seeking to understand how Muslim youth and other groups of
immigrant youth negotiate their identities as Americans.
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