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Immigrant Stories is a research and archiving project run by the Immigration History Research Center (IHRC) at the University of Minnesota. Immigrant Stories helps immigrants, refugees, and their family members create digital stories: brief videos with images, text, and audio about a personal experience.
\n\nThis project defines \"immigrant\" broadly. Our collection contains digital stories from people living outside their country of birth as well as stories created by their children and grandchildren. Immigrant Stories also welcomes stories from international students, international adoptees, and people who do not feel that their stories fit a particular, or just one, category. All stories are important, and we invite you to make a video and share yours with us.
", "title": "Nasser Mussa", "title_s": "Nasser Mussa", "title_t": "Nasser Mussa", "title_search": "Nasser Mussa", "title_sort": "nassermussa", "description": "Nasser was born in Ethiopia and mostly grew up in Kenya. He came to Minnesota at the end of 2005 and still lives there. He graduated from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.", "date_created": [ "2011-03-20 - 2011-06-20" ], "date_created_ss": [ "2011-03-20 - 2011-06-20" ], "date_created_sort": "2011", "creator": [ "Mussa, Nasser" ], "creator_ss": [ "Mussa, Nasser" ], "creator_sort": "mussanasser", "notes": "Story originally created in the spring of 2011 for a University of Minnesota digital storytelling class taught by Professor Walt Jacobs. Donated to the IHRC in the fall of 2014.", "types": [ "Moving Image" ], "format": [ "Oral histories | http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595" ], "format_name": [ "Oral histories" ], "dimensions": "0:03:07", "subject": [ "Origin Ethiopia", "Ethnicity Oromo" ], "subject_ss": [ "Origin Ethiopia", "Ethnicity Oromo" ], "language": [ "English" ], "city": [ "Minneapolis" ], "state": [ "Minnesota" ], "country": [ "United States" ], "region": [ "Hennepin County" ], "continent": [ "North America" ], "parent_collection": "Immigrant Stories; https://cla.umn.edu/ihrc/immigrant-stories", "parent_collection_name": "Immigrant Stories", "contributing_organization": "University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center", "contributing_organization_name": "University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center", "contributing_organization_name_s": "University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center", "contact_information": "University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center. 311 Elmer L. Andersen Library, 222 - 21st Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55455; https://cla.umn.edu/ihrc", "fiscal_sponsor": "This work is made possible through the generous funding of the Digital Public Library of America Digital Hubs Pilot, which is supported by the Digital Public Library of America with funding provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.", "local_identifier": [ "cla-ihrc-is-0161" ], "dls_identifier": [ "cla-ihrc-is-0161" ], "rights_statement_uri": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/", "transcription": "Nasser\nMussa:\n“Identity\nCrisis”\n–\nTranscription\nIdentity\ncrisis.\nBeing\na\nblack,\nimmigrant\nMuslim\nand\nliving\nin\nAmerica.\nI\nwas\nknown\njust\nby\nmy\nname\nand\nmy\ngender,\nnot\nby\nthe\ncolor\nof\nmy\nskin\nor\ndress\nor\nimmigrant\nstatus.\nBut\nnow\nI’m\nknown\nas\na\nblack\nimmigrant\nand\na\nMuslim\nin\nAmerica.\nFollowing\nmy\narrival\nin\nthe\nU.S.,\nmany\nidentities\ncame\nto\ndefine\nme.\nJust\non\nthe\nfirst\nday\nat\nJFK\nAirport\nin\nNew\nYork,\nI\nhad\nto\ntake\npractice\nidentifying\nmyself\nas\nblack,\nimmigrant,\nor\nrefugee.\nYou’re\nstripped\nof\nyour\nidentity\nand\nwrapped\nup\nin\na\ncategorizing\nsystem\nthat\ntries\nto\ndefine\nand\ndetermine\nyour\ndestiny.\nColor\nis\na\nbig\ndeal\nin\nAmerica.\nIt\ndetermines\nhow\npeople\nsee\nyou\nand\ngeneralize\nabout\nyou\nand\nyour\nlife.\nReligion\nis\na\nbig\ndeal\nin\nAmerica.\nIf\nyou\nare\nMuslim\nin\nAmerica,\nyour\nloyalty\nis\nquestionable.\nWhen\nObama\nwas\nrunning\nfor\npresident,\nhe\nrepeatedly\nsaid,\n“I\nam\nnot\na\nMuslim,\nI\nam\nnot\na\nMuslim,\nand\nI\nam\nnot\na\nMuslim.”\nBeing\na\nMuslim\nin\nAmerica\nraises\na\nquestion\nof\nloyalty,\n“Are\nyou\nwith\nus\nor\nwith\nthem?”\nLike\nBush\nsaid,\n“You\nare\neither\nwith\nus\nor\nagainst\nus.”\nYour\nblackness\ngrants\nyou\nalmost\na\nticket\nto\nhell,\nknown\nas\nAmerican\njail,\nwhere\nmany\nyoung\nblacks\nreside\nin\na\nsmall\ncell\nthat\nbuilds\ninvisible\nwalls\naround\nyou\nthat\nscares\nthe\nhell\nout\nof\npeople\nand\nraises\nthe\nquestion,\nwhere\nyou\nfit\nin\nAmerica\nsociety,\nlike\nIndian\ncaste\nsystem.\nWait\na\nminute,\nthe\nstory’s\nnot\nover.\nYour\nblackness\ndefies\ndiscrimination\nand\nreinforces\ninvisible\nsegregation\nthat\nruns\nalong\nracial\nboundaries,\nwhich\nplays\nsignificant\nrole\nin\nyour\nlife\nand\nraises\nself-‐consciousness.\nBeing\na\nblack\nis\nnot\na\ncrime,\nbeing\nan\nimmigrant\nis\nnot\na\ncrime,\nbeing\na\nMuslim\nis\nnot\na\ncrime.\nBut\nthese\nidentities\nare\nmisunderstood\nand\nmisinterpreted,\nand\nI\nam\ntrapped\nin\nthese\nidentities\nforever.\nWhen\nI\nwas\nvolunteering\nfor\nObama’s\nelection,\nI\nknocked\non\na\nstranger’s\ndoor\nand\nwas\nconfronted\nby\na\nman\nwho\nsaid\nthat\nAmerica\nis\nnot\nready\nfor\na\nblack\npresident.\nI\nwas\nshocked.\nI\nnever\nthought\nthe\ncolor\nof\nskin\nbecomes\na\nproblem,\nbut\nI’m\nwrong.\nI\nnever\nthought\nmy\nreligion\nis\na\nproblem,\nbut\nI’m\nwrong.\nI\nnever\nthought\nmy\nimmigrant\nstatus\nis\na\nproblem,\nbut\nI’m\nwrong.\nThe\ncombination\nof\ninvisible\nand\nvisible\nidentities\nconstrict\nmy\nlife\nin\nAmerica.\nI\nam\nwho\nI\nam,\nleave\nme\nalone\nor\nlove\nme\nas\nI\nam.", "kaltura_video": "1_wrwigjnh", "page_count": 0, "record_type": "primary", "first_viewer_type": "kaltura_video", "viewer_type": "kaltura_video", "attachment": "262.pdf", "attachment_format": "pdf", "document_type": "item", "featured_collection_order": 999, "date_added": "2021-01-26T00:00:00Z", "date_added_sort": "2021-01-26T00:00:00Z", "date_modified": "2021-01-26T00:00:00Z", "_version_": 1710337987164766208, "type": "Moving Image", "collection": "p16022coll554", "is_compound": false, "parent_id": "103", "thumb_url": "https://cdnapisec.kaltura.com/p/1369852/thumbnail/entry_id/1_wrwigjnh", "thumb_cdn_url": "https://dkp5i0hinw9br.cloudfront.net/525d56e17e27751a4d7a2586ddee1847a0237af1.png", "children": [ ] }