A Good Country: My Life in Twelve Town s and the Devastating Battle for a White America \;follows the st ory of Sofia Ali-Khan\, a Muslim Pakistani/American/Canadian in the places in America she called home. Part memoir\, part historical exploration\, A Good Country \;examines how racist-forced migration has maintained a white America.
\nThe book chronicles the author's experiences trippi ng over the colour line in each town she was living in and reveals the hid den backstory of the colour line. \;How did America's Chinatowns origi nate? What happened to the original indigenous Maroon and Seminole people in the creation of Florida? A Good Country seeks answers to quest ions like these across Pennsylvania\, New Jersey\, Arizona\, South Dakota\ , Arkansas\, Massachusetts\, and Illinois. As she ties historical narrativ es into her life history\, Sofia Ali-Khan gives a first-hand account of wh at it is like growing up and living in the U.S. as a Muslim American. Her book is both a coming-of-age and a coming-to-faith story that poses the ul timate question of what would it take to make America a good country?
\ nSofia Ali-Khan is a social justice lawyer t urned writer. Her essays have appeared in TIME Magazine\, Los Angeles Time s\, and the Chicago Tribune\, among other venues\, earning her a 2022 Push cart Prize nomination. As an attorney\, she worked on welfare rights\, imm igrant rights\, and community economic development and became a national l eader on the right to language access in the United States. A Good Country is her first book\, and much of it was written at her home in Burlington\ , Ontario.
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