Moustafa Bayoumi is the author of How Does It Feel To Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America, which won an American Book Award and the Arab American Book Award for Nonfiction. He is the editor of Midnight on the Mavi Marmara and co-editor of The Edward Said Reader. He is Professor of English at Brooklyn College, City University of New York (CUNY).

• Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction: My Muslim American Life 1 PART I. MUSLIMS IN HISTORY 1. Letter to a G-Man 23 2. East of the Sun (West of the Moon): Islam, the Ahmadis, and African America 35 3. Racing Religion 48 PART II. MUSLIMS IN THEORY 4. Sects and the City 75 5. A Bloody Stupid War 78 6. The God That Failed: The Neo-Orientalism of Today's Muslim Commentators 99 PART III. MUSLIMS IN POLITICS 7. The Rites and Rights of Citizenship 121 8. Between Acceptance and Rejection: Muslim Americans and the Legacies of September 11 128 9. Fear and Loathing of Islam 140 10. The Oak Creek Massacre 148 11. White with Rage 152 vi Contents PART IV. MUSLIMS IN CULTURE 12. My Arab Problem 169 13. Disco Inferno 175 14. The Race Is On: Muslims and Arabs in the American Imagination 185 15. Men Behaving Badly 210 16. Chaos and Procedure 217 17. Coexistence 240 Conclusion: Our Muslim American Lives 253

"Some of the essays were written as many as 15 years ago. Still, the policies he writes about have been much-discussed of latefrom Muslim registration programs to increased surveillance of Muslim communities." (amExpress)

Moustafa Bayoumi is the author of How Does It Feel To Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America, which won an American Book Award and the Arab American Book Award for Nonfiction. He is the editor of Midnight on the Mavi Marmara and co-editor of The Edward Said Reader. He is Professor of English at Brooklyn College, City University of New York (CUNY).

• Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction: My Muslim American Life 1 PART I. MUSLIMS IN HISTORY 1. Letter to a G-Man 23 2. East of the Sun (West of the Moon): Islam, the Ahmadis, and African America 35 3. Racing Religion 48 PART II. MUSLIMS IN THEORY 4. Sects and the City 75 5. A Bloody Stupid War 78 6. The God That Failed: The Neo-Orientalism of Today's Muslim Commentators 99 PART III. MUSLIMS IN POLITICS 7. The Rites and Rights of Citizenship 121 8. Between Acceptance and Rejection: Muslim Americans and the Legacies of September 11 128 9. Fear and Loathing of Islam 140 10. The Oak Creek Massacre 148 11. White with Rage 152 vi Contents PART IV. MUSLIMS IN CULTURE 12. My Arab Problem 169 13. Disco Inferno 175 14. The Race Is On: Muslims and Arabs in the American Imagination 185 15. Men Behaving Badly 210 16. Chaos and Procedure 217 17. Coexistence 240 Conclusion: Our Muslim American Lives 253

"Some of the essays were written as many as 15 years ago. Still, the policies he writes about have been much-discussed of latefrom Muslim registration programs to increased surveillance of Muslim communities." (amExpress)

Moustafa Bayoumi is the author of How Does It Feel To Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America, which won an American Book Award and the Arab American Book Award for Nonfiction. He is the editor of Midnight on the Mavi Marmara and co-editor of The Edward Said Reader. He is Professor of English at Brooklyn College, City University of New York (CUNY).

• Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction: My Muslim American Life 1 PART I. MUSLIMS IN HISTORY 1. Letter to a G-Man 23 2. East of the Sun (West of the Moon): Islam, the Ahmadis, and African America 35 3. Racing Religion 48 PART II. MUSLIMS IN THEORY 4. Sects and the City 75 5. A Bloody Stupid War 78 6. The God That Failed: The Neo-Orientalism of Today's Muslim Commentators 99 PART III. MUSLIMS IN POLITICS 7. The Rites and Rights of Citizenship 121 8. Between Acceptance and Rejection: Muslim Americans and the Legacies of September 11 128 9. Fear and Loathing of Islam 140 10. The Oak Creek Massacre 148 11. White with Rage 152 vi Contents PART IV. MUSLIMS IN CULTURE 12. My Arab Problem 169 13. Disco Inferno 175 14. The Race Is On: Muslims and Arabs in the American Imagination 185 15. Men Behaving Badly 210 16. Chaos and Procedure 217 17. Coexistence 240 Conclusion: Our Muslim American Lives 253

"Some of the essays were written as many as 15 years ago. Still, the policies he writes about have been much-discussed of latefrom Muslim registration programs to increased surveillance of Muslim communities." (amExpress)