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Unsettled Belonging: Educating Palestinian American Youth After 9/11
Contributor(s): Abu El-Haj, Thea Renda (Author)
ISBN: 022628932X     ISBN-13: 9780226289328
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
OUR PRICE:   $98.01  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: November 2015
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BISAC Categories:
- Education | Elementary
- Education | Secondary
- Education | Multicultural Education
Dewey: 305.899
LCCN: 2015013434
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.3" W x 9.1" (1.05 lbs) 262 pages
Themes:
- Ethnic Orientation - Multicultural
 
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Publisher Description:
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.


Contributor Bio(s): Abu El-Haj, Thea Renda: - 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.