Loukia K Sarroub

All American Yemeni Girls

Being Muslim in a Public School

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Produktbeschreibung

Winner of the National Reading Conference 2005 Edward Fry Book Award 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 sens

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Januar 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 153mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 259g
• ISBN-13: 9780812218947
• ISBN-10: 0812218949
• Artikelnr.: 21628505

Autorenporträt

Loukia K. Sarroub is Assistant Professor of education at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. She is currently conducting fieldwork on literacy in and out of school among American and Iraqi refugee youth.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Being American, Being Yemeni: Uncovering a Predicament
2. American Sojourners between Honor and Shame
3. Classroom as Oasis
4. Islam and Conflicting Visions of Literacy
5. The Tensions Teachers Face: Public Education and Islam
6. From Aspiration to Desperation and Living in Ambiguity
7. Living Ethnography: Reflections on Dearborn before and after September
11
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments