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All American Yemeni Girls - Being Muslim in a Public School (Paperback, New)
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All American Yemeni Girls - Being Muslim in a Public School (Paperback, New)
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Based on more than two years of fieldwork conducted in a Yemeni
community in southeastern Michigan, this unique study examines
Yemeni American girls' attempts to construct and make sense of
their identities as Yemenis, Muslims, Americans, daughters of
immigrants, teenagers, and high school students. All American
Yemeni Girls contributes substantially to our understanding of the
impact of religion on students attending public schools and the
intersecting roles school and religion play in the lives of Yemeni
students and their families. Providing a valuable background on the
history of Yemen and the migration of Yemeni people to the United
States, this is an eye-opening account of a group of people we hear
about every day but about whom we know very little. Through a
series of intensive interviews and field observations, Loukia K.
Sarroub discovered that the young Muslim women shared moments of
optimism and desperation and struggled to reconcile the America
they experienced at school with the Yemeni lives they knew at home.
Most significant, Sarroub found that they often perceived
themselves as failing at being both American and Yemeni. Offering a
distinctive analysis of the ways ethnicity, culture, gender, and
socioeconomic status complicate lives, Sarroub examines how these
students view their roles within American and Yemeni societies,
between institutions such as the school and the family, between
ethnic and Islamic visions of success in the United States. Sarroub
argues that public schools serve as a site of liberation and
reservoir of contested hope for students and teachers questioning
competing religious and cultural pressures. The final chapter
offers a rich and important discussion of how conditions in the
United States encourage the rise of extremism and allow it to
flourish, raising pressing questions about the role of public
education in the post-September 11 world. All American Yemeni Girls
offers a fine-grained and compelling portrait of these young Muslim
women and their endeavors to succeed in American society, and it
brings us closer to understanding an oft-cited but little
researched population.
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