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Khan, M. (2020). It's not about the burqa: Muslim - This book is a brilliant, sophisticated collection of
women on faith, feminism, sexuality and passionate essays from 17 different Muslim
race. Picador. women, and their experiences against the
problems Muslim women disproportionally endure
living in the Western world.
- The women in these essays, collectively, educate
on the important of listening to the voices of
Muslim women than relying and falling on the
misrepresentation, overgeneralization and
exaggerations in the media.
- Challenges the stereotypes and various
oppressions of Western countries and the
negative aspects present in their general
communities from which many of their
backgrounds are from. Furthermore touch on how
the problems of their respective countries and
such are theirs to work with and should not be
utilized to demonize them, when every culture and
country has it’s own problems.

Hamad, R. (2020). White tears brown scars: how - Hamad’s book elaborates how methods of white
white feminism betrays women of color. feminism does not help and further oppressions
Catapult. WOC and upholds the systems of racism and
patriarchy.
- Diligently weaves the histories that explain the
creations of many harmful ideas, stereotypes,
and systems that continue to perpetuate in
modern day, implemented to excuse the centuries
age practice of the exploitation and demonization
of POC, women, and how they uphold white

Patel, E. (2008). Acts of Faith: the Story of an
American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul
of a Generation. Beacon Press.
Medford, M. (2020, June 25). The Immigration
Identity Crisis: Too Ethnic or Not Ethnic
Enough? New Canadian Media.
https://newcanadianmedia.ca/the-
immigration-identity-crisis-too-ethnic-or-
not-ethnic-enough/.
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supremacy in ways that make it every difficult to
undo.
- Provides much clarity on so many historical
misconceptions that contribute to present day
racism. Gives solutions/recommendations/advice
to these issues and stagnate them as we
progress as humankind.
- Eboo Patel describes his experience growing up
as a second generation immigrant in America and
the different transformations of his personality,
goals, and spiritual identity from grade school,
university, and post-grad and search for his “soul
and meaning.”
- Explains what religious pluralism is, which is the
value of diverse, unique religions co-existing
together in peace, harmony and deep
understanding in which spirituality is formed in.
- The value religious pluralism is what he, and
many individuals he talks about in this book,
believe can heal and combat the dissent, hate
and racism toward other religions that exists and
causes so much discourse, inequity and unrest
around the world, and how he believes young
people, who are typically more ambitious each
generation, are the key to this.
- Canadians who are first or second gen.
Immigrants can experience complication with
regards to how they identify themselves ethnically
and connect with their culture’s traditions,
customs and celebrations.
- Author reaches out to colleagues who share
thoughts and struggles about identity as ethnic
Canadians (rejection and even resent toward

Ansari Updated June 29, S. (2017, August 3).
Here's how multiculturalism has failed
people like me. Chatelaine.
https://www.chatelaine.com/opinion/multicu
lturalism/.
Cole, D. (2021). The skin we're in. Anchor
Canada.
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ulticulturalism/
parent culture in hopes of gaining acceptance,
disconnect between family, struggle with labels
and questions about such, rigidity toward
maintaining traditions at home disallows room for
evolution and blending of cultures).
- “...The best approach is to blend cultures together
and learn from each other...” “embrace their
culture” with customization and understanding.
This interviewees of this piece provide their
thoughts and opinions regarding how second and
third generation immigrants can create a more
meaningful, holistic understanding of themselves.
Poles critical holes in the mythologization of Canada’s
popular narrative about being perfect country with
regards towards its diversity and with very little
divisiveness that many people seem to prefer to adopt
and be content with.
- Questions and elaborates whether or not,
and how, the institutionalizing of multiculturalism in a
technically still colonial country still does harm rather than
benefit the immigrants the policy/custom was ‘intended’
help, with the use of somesurveys, studies and critical
thinking.
- “Multiculturalism is important in recognizing
difference but it traps people in that difference,
and makes it the only frame in which you can
possibility understand them” (Thobani, 2017).
Provides a powerful month by month analysis of 2017 in
regards to anti-blackness and xenophobia present in
Canada, but also delivers histories of Black resistances
and POC solidary and strength.
Effectively links policing, prisons, public education,
migrant labor, impoverished neighborhoods and the fates
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of refugees in Canada with every chapter and includes

words of power and resolution via unwavering
commitment not to tolerate injustice from those in
positions of power.

I’m utilizing this book mainly for feeding some of my

inspiration for my topic, and some of the chapters and
paragraphs touch on and provide articulation toward what
I want to focus on.