Islam in America

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

The souls of young Muslim folk

The souls of young Muslim folk
What it's like to be America's new "problem" in the age of terror.


By Justin Jouvenal
Salon.com

Aug. 26, 2008 | The question posed by W.E.B. DuBois in his classic "The Souls of Black Folk" cut to the marrow of what it was like to be black under Jim Crow. Now, more than a century after DuBois penned his query, Moustafa Bayoumi thinks it is appropriate to ask it again. The associate professor of English at Brooklyn College argues in his new book, "How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?" that young Arabs and Muslims are America's latest "problem."

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