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This book examines the challenges that Pakistani-American families have faced in their attempts to assimilate within the U.S. school culture since the September 11 terrorist attack.

Pakistani Americans --- Muslims --- Education --- September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 --- Social aspects. --- Parent participation --- Influence.

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At a cafe; table in Lahore, a bearded Pakistani man converses with an uneasy American stranger. As dusk deepens to night, he begins the tale that has brought them to this fateful meeting . . . Changez is living an immigrant's dream of America. At the top of his class at Princeton, he is snapped up by the elite "valuation" firm of Underwood Samson. He thrives on the energy of New York, and his infatuation with elegant, beautiful Erica promises entry into Manhattan society at the same exalted level once occupied by his own family back in Lahore. But in the wake of September 11, Changez finds his position in his adopted city suddenly overturned, and his budding relationship with Erica eclipsed by the reawakened ghosts of her past. And Changez's own identity is in seismic shift as well, unearthing allegiances more fundamental than money, power, and maybe even love.

Pakistani Americans --- Race discrimination --- Self-perception --- Bias, Racial --- Discrimination, Racial --- Race bias --- Racial bias --- Racial discrimination --- Discrimination --- Ethnology --- Pakistanis

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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.

Homosexuality --- Pakistani Americans --- Muslims in popular culture --- Muslims --- Religious aspects --- Islam --- Ethnic identity --- Social conditions --- Houston (Tex.) --- Ethnic relations

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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 1960's and later under bare-knuckle capitalism. He includes a brief synopsis of Pakistan's tumultuous history, including the role played by superpowers with an interest in the region.

Pakistani Americans --- Physicians --- Political activists --- Medical care --- Delivery of health care --- Delivery of medical care --- Health care --- Health care delivery --- Health services --- Healthcare --- Medical and health care industry --- Medical services --- Personal health services --- Public health --- Activists, Political --- Persons --- Political participation --- Ethnology --- Pakistanis --- Ehtisham, S. Akhtar, --- Pakistan --- Great Britain --- United States --- Social conditions. --- Social conditions