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Contribution to Book
The Diaspora in the West
The Islamic World
  • Amir Hussain, Loyola Marymount University
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
1-1-2008
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Abstract

With the dream America everyone carries round in his head, America the Beautiful, Langston Hughes’s country that never existed but needed to exist – with that, like everyone else, I was thoroughly in love. But ask the rest of the world what America meant and with one voice the rest of the world answered back, Might, it means Might. A power so great that it shapes our daily lives even though it barely knows we exist, it couldn’t point to us on a map.

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Citation Information
Hussain, Amir. “The Diaspora in the West.” In The Islamic World, edited by Andrew Rippin, 131-142. London: Routledge, 2008.