Unsettled belonging : educating Palestinian American youth after 9/11 / Thea Renda Abu El-Haj.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Abu El-Haj, Thea Renda, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Palestinian Americans--Social conditions.

Palestinian Americans.

Palestinian Americans--Ethnic identity.

Identity (Psychology) in youth.

Minority students--Social conditions.

Minority students.

Ethnicity.

Social conditions.

Physical Description:

250 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Educating Palestinian American youth after 9/11

Place of Publication:

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, [2015]

Summary:

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 Renda 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 casts them as impossible subjects. A vital account of post-9/11 immigrant life, Unsettled Belonging is a steadfast look at the disjunctures of modern citizenship. Book jacket.

Contents:

"Trying to have an identity without a place in the world"

"We are stateless, but we still have rights"

"The best country in the world" : imagining America in an age of empire

"The beauty of America is it's a salad bowl" : everyday nationalism at Regional High

"Are you or are you not an American?" : the politics of belonging in everyday life.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780226289328

022628932X

9780226289465

022628946X

OCLC:

907147516