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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (259 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

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 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 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. Finally, she raises a series of crucial questions about how we educate for active citizenship in contemporary times, when more and more people's lives are shaped within transnational contexts. A compelling account of post-9/11 immigrant life, Unsettled Belonging is a steadfast look at the disjunctures of modern citizenship.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

1 "Trying to Have an Identity without a Place in the World"

2 "We Are Stateless, but We Still Have Rights"

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780226289632

022628963X

OCLC:

923253343