The Diaspora in the West

Authors

Amir Hussain, Loyola Marymount UniversityFollow

Document Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

2008

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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Original Publication Citation

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

Digital Commons @ LMU & LLS Citation

Hussain, Amir, "The Diaspora in the West" (2008). Theological Studies Faculty Works. 534.
https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/theo_fac/534