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Bilal cooks daal
Bilal and his father invite his friends to help make his favorite dish, daal, then all must wait patiently for it to be done.
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Lone Star Muslims
Lone Star Muslims offers an engaging and insightful look at
contemporary Muslim American life in Texas. It illuminates the
dynamics of the Pakistani Muslim community in Houston, a city with
one of the largest Muslim populations in the south and southwestern
United States. Drawing on interviews and participant observation at
radio stations, festivals, and ethnic businesses, the volume
explores everyday Muslim lives at the intersection of race, class,
profession, gender, sexuality, and religious sectarian affiliation
to demonstrate the complexity of the South Asian experience.
Importantly, the volume incorporates narratives of gay Muslim
American men of Pakistani descent, countering the presumed
heteronormativity evident in most of the social science scholarship
on Muslim Americans and revealing deeply felt affiliations to Islam
through ritual and practice. It also includes narratives of members
of the highly skilled Shia Ismaili Muslim labor force employed in
corporate America, of Pakistani ethnic entrepreneurs, the working
class and the working poor employed in Pakistani ethnic businesses,
of community activists, and of radio program hosts. Decentering
dominant framings that flatten understandings of transnational
Islam and Muslim Americans, such as \"terrorist\" on the one hand,
and \"model minority\" on the other, Lone Star Muslims offers a
glimpse into a variety of lived experiences. It shows how
specificities of class, Islamic sectarian affiliation, citizenship
status, gender, and sexuality shape transnational identities and
mediate racism, marginalities, and abjection.
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Sway with me
\"Arsalan Nizami has learned all he knows from his 100-year-old great-grandfather, but when Beenish Siraj asks him to be her partner in a dance she's been forbidden to perform at her sister's wedding, Arsalan's world opens up in more ways than he could have imagined\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Negotiating Ethnicity
In the continuing debates on the topic of racial and ethnic identity in the United States, there are some that argue that ethnicity is an ascribed reality. To the contrary, others claim that individuals are becoming increasingly active inchoosingandconstructingtheir ethnic identities. Focusing on second-generation South Asian Americans, Bandana Purkayastha offers fresh insights into the subjective experience of race, ethnicity, and social class in an increasingly diverse America. The young people of Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, and Nepalese origin that are the subjects of the study grew up in mostly white middle class suburbs, and their linguistic skills, education, and occupation profiles are indistinguishable from their white peers. By many standards, their lifestyles mark them as members of mainstream American culture. But, as Purkayastha shows, their ethnic experiences are shaped by their racial status as neither \"white\" nor \"wholly Asian,\" their continuing ties with family members across the world, and a global consumer industry, which targets them as ethnic consumers.\" Drawing on information gathered from forty-eight in-depth interviews and years of research, this book illustrates how ethnic identity is negotiated by this group through choice-the adoption of ethnic labels, the invention of \"traditions,\" the consumption of ethnic products, and participation in voluntary societies. The pan-ethnic identities that result demonstrate both a resilient attachment to heritage and a celebration of reinvention. Lucidly written and enriched with vivid personal accounts,Negotiating Ethnicityis an important contribution to the literature on ethnicity and racialization in contemporary American culture.
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Power forward
Fourth-grader Zayd yearns to play basketball on the Gold Team, but when he skips orchestra rehearsal to practice, his parents forbid anything basketball-related, and tryouts are coming soon.
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Cardiovascular Health and Disease in the Pakistani American Population
Purpose of Review
This narrative review seeks to elucidate clinical and social factors influencing cardiovascular health, explore the challenges and potential solutions for enhancing cardiovascular health, and identify areas where further research is needed to better understand cardiovascular issues in native and American Pakistani populations.
Recent Findings
The prevalence of cardiometabolic disease is high not only in Pakistan but also among its global diaspora. This situation is further complicated by the inadequacy of current cardiovascular risk assessment tools, which often fall short of accurately gauging the risk among Pakistani individuals, underscoring the urgent need for more tailored and effective assessment methodologies. Moreover, social determinants play a crucial role in shaping cardiovascular health.
Summary
The burden of cardiovascular disease and upstream risk factors is high among American Pakistani individuals. Future research is needed to better understand the heightened risk of cardiovascular disease among Pakistani individuals.
Journal Article
Yasmin the teacher
When Ms. Alex is called away from the classroom, she leaves Yasmin in charge, but the other children just ignore her and start acting silly and noisy--until Yasmin thinks up a way to motivate them to finish the math assignment, quietly.
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Medical Doctor Examines Life on Three Continents
A medical doctor and political activist traces his life from India at partition to graduate work and practice in the UK and America, comparing health standards, economic well-being, race relations, and the political atmosphere on three continents during the socially-conscious 1960s and later under bare-knuckle capitalism. He includes a brief synopsis of Pakistans tumultuous history, including the role played by superpowers with an interest in the region.
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The art of secrets
When some quirky art donated to a school fundraising effort to help a Pakistani American family, victims of a possible hate crime, is revealed to be an unknown work by a famous outsider artist, worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, adults and teenagers alike debate who should get the money and begin to question each other's motivations.
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An Intersectional Feminist Approach to Pakistani-American Women’s Gender Roles in Therapy
Pakistani-American women exist at the intersection of multiple cultures and identities that have profound impact on their experiences. Therapy from an intersectional feminist lens can be empowering for Pakistani-American clients. Patriarchal expectations for Pakistani-American women are impacted by historical and political events as well as social and cultural values, which will be expounded upon in the manuscript. These expectations impact Pakistani-American women’s presenting concerns in therapy. Counseling implications that address how patriarchal expectations may influence clinical work with this population are discussed. A case vignette that presents intersectional feminist therapy between a counselor and a Pakistani-American client is explained.
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