Burqas, baseball, and apple pie : being Muslim in America

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Label

Burqas, baseball, and apple pie : being Muslim in America

Title remainder

being Muslim in America

Statement of responsibility

Ranya Tabari Idliby

Creator

• Idliby, Ranya, 1965-

Subject

• FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / General
• FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Parenting / Motherhood
• Idliby, Ranya, 1965-
• Idliby, Ranya, 1965- -- Family
• Islamophobia -- United States
• Muslim families -- United States
• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women
• Muslims -- United States -- Ethnic identity
• Muslims -- United States -- Social conditions
• United States -- Ethnic relations
• United States -- Religious life and customs
• United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-
• Muslims -- Cultural assimilation -- United States

Language

eng

Summary

"For many Americans, the words 'American' and 'Muslim' simply do not marry well; for many the combination is an anathema, a contradiction in values, loyalties, and identities. This is the story of one American Muslim family--the story of how, through their lives, their schools, their friends, and their neighbors, they end up living the challenges, myths, fears, hopes, and dreams of all Americans. They are challenged both by Muslims who speak for them and by Americans who reject them. In this moving memoir, Idliby discusses not only coming to terms with what it means to be Muslim today, but how to raise and teach her children about their heritage and religious legacy. She explores life as a Muslim in a world where hostility towards Muslims runs rampant, where there is an entire industry financed and supported by think tanks, authors, film makers, and individual vigilantes whose sole purpose is to vilify and spread fear about all things Muslim. Her story is quintessentially American, a story of the struggles of assimilation and acceptance in a climate of confusion and prejudice--a story for anyone who has experienced being an "outsider" inside your own home country."--Publisher information

Biography type

autobiography

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

305.6/97073

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

E184.M88

LC item number

I35 2014

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography