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Sociologist Explores Growing Up Muslim In America

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You can start an argument in America talking about Muslims living here.  But facts are facts: some Americans are Muslim, plain and simple. 

And anyone growing up Muslim in America has some tricky balancing acts to maneuver. 

Sociologist John O'Brien explains in his book Keeping It Halal: The Everyday Lives of Muslim American Teenage Boys.  Through the book, we get to meet young people facing competing cultural demands.  The author joins us with highlights. 

 

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Geoffrey Riley is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism and has hosted the Jefferson Exchange on JPR since 2009. He's been a broadcaster in the Rogue Valley for more than 35 years, working in both television and radio.
April Ehrlich is JPR content partner at Oregon Public Broadcasting. Prior to joining OPB, she was a regional reporter at Jefferson Public Radio where she won a National Edward R. Murrow Award.