Muslim American Youth by Michelle Fine
Provides a much-needed analysis for those seeking to understand how Muslim youth and other groups of immigrant youth negotiate their identities as Americans-
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Control
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Living with Brain Injury
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Voicing Chicana Feminisms
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Situating Sadness
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Flirting with Danger
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American Karma
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Voted Out
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Inner City Kids
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Gay Dads
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Corridor Cultures
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Youth Activism in an Era of Education Inequality
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Growing Up Girl
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Violent Accounts
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Everyday Courage
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 groupMuslim-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)
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780814740392 |
| ISBN 10 | 0814740391 |
| Title | Muslim American Youth |
| Author | Michelle Fine |
| Series | Qualitative Studies In Psychology |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | New York University Press |
| Year published | 2008-07-12 |
| Number of pages | 277 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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