A common narrative that came up in the interviews with American-born Muslims was that when they were younger, they tended to socialize more with non-Muslims. This was because many of them went to schools where there were virtually no other Muslims. Many of them told me that once they got to college, they met more Muslims and they began to socialize with this group more exclusively. Nadine Naber (2005) found that a Muslim identity became more prominent for youth while in college, partially due to the need to respond to their increasingly racialized identity as Arab and Muslim after 9/11.

Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, loc. 80