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Muslims have been major targets of hate crimes and discrimination in the US since 9/11. Anti-Muslim resentment increased again after Donald Trump won the U.S. presidency and revitalized far-right politics. In this hostile environment, why do many young Muslim women choose to wear a headscarf and publicly display their Islamic identity? This book unravels this puzzle by drawing on sociological insights and three years of ethnographic study with Muslim adolescents in New York during the post-9/11 backlash. It finds that young, American-born Muslim women choose to cover their hair and bodies not simply out of spiritual devotion to Islamic fundamentalism, but also, and primarily, to cope with social adversity rooted in sexism, racism, and patriarchy in both their ethnic community and the larger Western society. This book will appeal to scholars, students and other readers interested in the Muslim diaspora, gender, race and ethnicity, youth, immigration, and social movements.

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[Donnelly's] observations and interviews challenge most common sense views about minority identity. Her work invites readers to reconsider scholarly understandings of identity construction by looking at a group that has been the target of hostile treatment. For anybody interested in the intersection of gender and religion, culture and power, in post 9-11 lives of young American Muslim women, Etsuko's book [is] highly illuminating. Javier Auyero, Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Professor of Latin American Sociology, University of Texas at Austin Donnelly's original and creative approach to these timely issues allows for a revealing of sorts that is vitally needed. Particularly important because she is exploring the mindset of young Muslim women, Donnelly allows for a kind of fundamental insight that is often lacking or, worse, very misunderstood. This work is seminal and it will surely inspire the kind of ethnographic work so essential to a collective understanding of some of the most important cultural issues of our time. Catherine MarroneSenior Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Sociology, Stony Brook University

""[Donnelly's] observations and interviews challenge most common sense views about minority identity. Her work invites readers to reconsider scholarly understandings of identity construction by looking at a group that has been the target of hostile treatment. For anybody interested in the intersection of gender and religion, culture and power, in post 9-11 lives of young American Muslim women, Etsuko's book [is] highly illuminating.""Javier Auyero, Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Professor of Latin American Sociology, University of Texas at Austin""Donnelly's original and creative approach to these timely issues allows for a revealing of sorts that is vitally needed. Particularly important because she is exploring the mindset of young Muslim women, Donnelly allows for a kind of fundamental insight that is often lacking or, worse, very misunderstood. This work is seminal and it will surely inspire the kind of ethnographic work so essential to a collective understanding of some of the most important cultural issues of our time.""Catherine MarroneSenior Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Sociology, Stony Brook University

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An award winning author, Dr Etsuko Maruoka-Donnelly received her PhD in Sociology in 2008, and is currently an Associate Professor of Sociology at Suffolk County Community College in New York. Her studies on ethnic minorities in the US have earned awards from the American Sociological Association, the Eastern Sociological Association, the New York State Sociological Association, and other research institutions. She has contributed to the Encyclopedia of Racism in the United States (edited by Pyong Gap Min) and published articles in Teaching Sociology, Journal of African and Asian Studies, and other academic journals.

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