ARAB IN AMERICA

ARAB IN AMERICA

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by Toufic El Rassi

$14.95

118 pages

ISBN-10: 0867196734

ISBN-13: 978-0-86719-673-3

Publisher: Last Gasp

The eye-opening story of the life of an average Arab-American struggling with his identity in an increasingly hostile nation. Using the graphic novel as his medium, Lebanon-born Toufic El Rassi chronicles his experience growing up Arab in America. Keen observations, clever insights and painful honesty make El Rassi's work shine as a critical 21st century memoir. From childhood through adolescence, and as an adult, El Rassi illustrates the prejudice and discrimination Arabs and Muslims experience in American society. He contends with ignorant teachers, racist neighbors, bullying classmates, and a growing sense of alienation.

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from ages ten to ten thousand - 06/11/2008

by icecreamlopez

A must read for anyone interested in humanity. This is a story of an intelligent and soft spoken man who struggles to fit into an often violent and ignorant society. A lesson to be learned and retold. A story about forgetting yourself to fit in and finding yourself to survive in a dangerous America after 9/11.