ISBN:
9780226289632
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressourcece
DDC:
305.899274073
Keywords:
Palästinensischer Jugendlicher
;
Palestinian Americans Social conditions
;
Palestinian Americans Ethnic identity
;
Identity (Psychology) in youth
;
Minority students Social conditions
;
USA
Abstract:
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.
Note:
Previously issued in print: 2015
,
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.7208/chicago/9780226289632.001.0001/upso-9780226289328
URL:
http://chicago.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.7208/chicago/9780226289632.001.0001/upso-9780226289328
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