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Unsettled Belonging: Educating Palestinian American Youth after 9/11
Thea Renda Abu El-Haj
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Description for Unsettled Belonging: Educating Palestinian American Youth after 9/11
Paperback. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JM; JFSL; JFSP2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 230 x 20. Weight in Grams: 394.
Unsettled Belonging tells the stories of young Palestinian Americans as they navigate and construct lives as American citizens. Following these youth throughout their school days, Thea Abu El-Haj 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 ... Read more
Unsettled Belonging tells the stories of young Palestinian Americans as they navigate and construct lives as American citizens. Following these youth throughout their school days, Thea Abu El-Haj 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226289465
SKU
V9780226289465
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About Thea Renda Abu El-Haj
Thea Abu El-Haj is associate professor of education and an educational anthropologist at Rutgers University. She is the author of Elusive Justice: Wrestling with Difference and Educational Equity in Everyday Practice.
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