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...each category can surely be found in each American Muslim, and this reality does not come across. Still, Barrett’s reflections on the fissures that exist between American Muslims—important issues of Shiite versus Sunni, blame for Sept. 11, degrees of orthodoxy, gender, and race??even as they fight for unity are both necessary and insightful. Despite its shortcomings, “American Islam” provides a much-needed look into the lives of a burgeoning but too often overlooked sector of the American population. —Reviewer Jessica A. Berger...
...it’s essentially been a white middle class movement, and because of that it has not dealt with issues that are vital to lesbian, gay, and transsexual people of color,” said Bronski, who gave a lecture entitled “The Queer Movement and Race?? in the series’ opening event on Monday night...
...brown children, quite a deed, given this country’s paradoxical one-drop rule that holds a black woman can never give birth to a white child, as historian Noel Ignatiev points out. (But he also calls for the “abolition” of the white race??of its privilege, of its label; not of its members. Still, maybe we should take his words with a grain of salt, yes?)Ultimately, my newfound discovery eluded me because, up until last time I checked over a Thanksgiving meal, she fervently denies...
...Irish education and childhood as compared with those of his New Yorker students. “We had the victim-type education,” McCourt said of the Irish, which “conditioned” them to believe they were a “fighting race?? of Catholics who “hated the English, but [were] always betrayed by some son of a bitch.” His teaching of high school students in New York, by contrast, was more unorthodox, he said, describing that they spent class periods crafting excuse notes for creative writing...
...director of Harvard’s Institute of Politics, Jeanne Shaheen, emerged last week as the top Democratic hopeful in New Hampshire’s 2008 Senate race??but she still hasn’t said whether or not she will throw her hat into the ring. After a top aide to New Hampshire Governor John Lynch confirmed last Thursday that the first-term Democrat doesn’t intend to run for senator, Shaheen became the party’s best chance to win the ’08 race, observers say. Shaheen, who was appointed...