Unsettled Belonging : Educating Palestinian American Youth after 9/11
Thea Renda. Abu El-Haj
Bok Engelsk 2015 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Chicago, Ill. : The University of Chicago Press , cop. 2015
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (259 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; Introduction; Part 1. Belonging and Citizenship; 1. "Trying to Have an Identity without a Place in the World"; 2. "We Are Stateless, but We Still Have Rights"; Part 2. "I Know How the Men in Your Country Treat You": Everyday Nationalism and the Politics of Exclusion; 3. "The Best Country in the World": Imagining America in an Age of Empire; 4. "The Beauty of America Is It's a Salad Bowl": Everyday Nationalism at Regional High; 5. "Are You or Are You Not an American?": The Politics of Belonging in Everyday Life; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References; Index. - This title tells the stories of young Palestinian Americans as they navigate and construct lives as American citizens. Following these youth throughout their school days, The author examines citizenship as lived experience, dependent on various social, cultural, and political memberships. For them, she shows, life is characterized by a fundamental schism between their sense of transnational belonging and the exclusionary politics of routine American nationalism that ultimately cast them as impossible subjects. Abu El-Haj explores the school as the primary site where young people from immigrant communities encounter the central discourses about what it means to be American. She illustrates the complex ways social identities are bound up with questions of belonging and citizenship, and she details the processes through which immigrant youth are racialized via everyday nationalistic practices.
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| Geografisk emneord | USA : HUME01695
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| ISBN | 9780226289328. - 9780226289465
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