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Aziz, Omer.
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Aziz, Omer.
Adult children of immigrants -- Canada -- Biography.
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Aziz, Omer.
Aziz, Omer.
Adult children of immigrants -- Canada -- Biography.
Pakistani Canadians -- Biography.
Muslims -- Canada -- Biography.
Muslims -- Canada -- Ethnic identity.
Canada -- Race relations.
Canada -- Ethnic relations.
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Brown boy : a memoir / Omer Aziz.
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Aziz, Omer.
Thorndike Press/Cengage Company, 2023.
Call #:
LP
305
.697092
A995b
Subjects
Aziz, Omer.
Adult children of immigrants -- Canada -- Biography.
Pakistani Canadians -- Biography.
Muslims -- Canada -- Biography.
Muslims -- Canada -- Ethnic identity.
Canada -- Race relations.
Canada -- Ethnic relations.
ISBN:
9781638088516 (large print hc.)
Edition:
Large print ed.
Description:
367 p. (large print) : 23 cm.
Summary:
"In a tough neighborhood on the outskirts of Toronto, miles away from wealthy white downtown, Omer Aziz struggles to find his place as a first-generation Pakistani Muslim boy. He fears the violence and despair of the world around him, and sees a dangerous path ahead, succumbing to aimlessness, apathy, and rage. In his senior year of high school, Omer quickly begins to realize that education can open up the wider world. But as he falls in love with books, and makes his way to Queen’s University in Ontario, Sciences Po in Paris [Institute of Political Studies], Cambridge University in England, and finally Yale Law School, he continually confronts his own feelings of doubt and insecurity at being an outsider, a brown-skinned boy in an elite white world. He is searching for community and identity, asking questions of himself and those he encounters, and soon finds himself in difficult situations -- whether in the suburbs of Paris or at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Yet the more books Omer reads and the more he moves through elite worlds, his feelings of shame and powerlessness only grow stronger, and clear answers recede further away. Weaving together his powerful personal narrative with the books and friendships that move him, Aziz wrestles with the contradiction of feeling like an Other and his desire to belong to a Western world that never quite accepts him. He poses the questions he couldn’t have asked in his youth: Was assimilation ever really an option? Could one transcend the perils of race and class? And could we -- the collective West -- ever honestly confront the darker secrets that, as Aziz discovers, still linger from the past? In Brown Boy, Omer Aziz has written an eye-opening book that eloquently describes the complex process of creating an identity that fuses where he’s from, what people see in him, and who he knows himself to be."--From publisher.
Omer Aziz is a lawyer, writer, and former foreign policy advisor in the administration of the Canadian Prime Minister. He was born to working-class parents of Pakistani origin in Toronto, Canada, and with the help of scholarships, became the first in his family to go to college in the West, later studying in Paris, at Cambridge University, and Yale Law School. Aziz has clerked for the United Nations Special Envoy for Syria and served as a foreign policy advisor in the government of Justin Trudeau. He has held residencies at Yaddo and MacDowell and has written for The New York Times, The Atlantic, New York magazine, The Washington Post, The New Republic, and many other publications. He was most recently a Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard University. 'Brown Boy' is his first book.
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Autobiographies.
Creative nonfiction.
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