Muslim Americans are a fast-growing minority group within the United States, both demographically and in the public consciousness. National surveys place them among the least liked groups in the U.S. cultural landscape, and throughout the twenty-first century they have often been the target of both high-profile vitriol and common daily abuses. We use logistic regression analyses of nationally representative data from the Pew Research Center’s 2011 Survey of American Muslims to better understand the social predictors of experiencing discrimination among American Muslims. Integrating these analyses with existing literature on minority group assimilation, we find that both patterns of assimilation and resistance to assimilation positively predict experiences of discrimination. These results suggest that American Muslims face no unequivocal path away from discriminatory experiences and inhabit a precarious place where assimilation presents more opportunities for exposure to discrimination and resistance to assimilation leads to sanctions from the dominant culture.

穆斯林美国人是美国境内快速增长的少数群体，无论是在人口结构上还是在公众意识中。全国调查将他们列为美国文化景观中最不受欢迎的群体之一，在整个 21 世纪，他们经常成为备受瞩目的尖刻和日常虐待的目标。我们使用来自皮尤研究中心 2011 年美国穆斯林调查的全国代表性数据的逻辑回归分析，以更好地了解美国穆斯林遭受歧视的社会预测因素。将这些分析与现有的关于少数群体同化的文献相结合，我们发现同化模式和对同化的抵抗都可以积极预测歧视的经历。