Du Bois’ question about being a problem now applies to Arab Americans

Evidence

Just over a century ago, W.E.B. Du Bois posed a provocative question in his classic The Souls of Black Folk: “How does it feel to be a problem?” Now, Moustafa Bayoumi asks the same question about a new “problem” in the United States—and relies on seven young Arab Americans to provide the answer. — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 1198

Categorization

• XREF: Connects directly to the title’s framing device; also echoes Du Bois’ Souls of Black Folk and the classic question of the ‘problem’ status of a group.