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Summary:

On the eve of the 2016 election, a group of first-generation high school students from a Bangladeshi Muslim community in Hudson, NY are thrust into a complex web. For the next six years, six teenagers Mahmuda, Jahed, Ramisa, Saddique, Farzana, and Jabin confront xenophobia, the cost of forbidden love, identity struggles, and their conservative parents' idea of the American Dream. Hudson, New York saw an influx of Bangladeshi immigrants in the mid-1990s come to work as low-wage laborers in a button factory that closed on the eve of September 11. Both the scarcity of manufacturing jobs and the post-9/11 Islamophobia in America left the Bangladeshi community devastated. Anti-Muslim rhetoric hung over the older generation as they struggled to support their growing families while becoming increasingly insular. Meanwhile, the younger generation is college-bound with scholarships and sees themselves as young ambassadors of Islam. But in the wake of the 2016 election, the ways they see themselves concerning their country are thrown into flux.

Contributors:

Kurtz, Zuzka , film director, screenwriter

Hug, Geoffrey , film director, screenwriter, film producer, director of photography, editor of moving image work

Video Project , publisher

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Closed-captioned.

Subjects:

Presidents — United States — Election — 2016

Muslim teenagers — New York (State) — Hudson

Political participation — United States

Hudson (N.Y.) — Social life and customs

Manners and customs

Muslim teenagers

Political participation

Presidents — Election

New York (State) — Hudson

United States

2016

Genres:

Documentary films

Nonfiction films

Feature films

Video recordings for the hearing impaired

System Details:

DVD-R.
NOTICE: This is a DVD-R and may not play on all DVD players.

Production Credits:

Director of photography and editor, Geoffrey Hug.

General Notes:

Description based on: Title from container.
Originally produced as a documentary film in 2022.
Public performance rights included. See license record l10016879

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Physical Characteristics:

4 3/4 in.; burning; monochrome

Audio Characteristics:

digital; optical; sound

Digital Characteristics:

video file; DVD video

Call Numbers:

JK526 HUD 2022 DVD

Other Standard Numbers:

Publisher Number, Video Project: HUM-2035

OCLC Numbers:

1386277686