"Just to Make Sure People Know I Was Born Here": Muslim Women Constructing American Selves

Autor/in	Mir, Shabana
Titel	"Just to Make Sure People Know I Was Born Here": Muslim Women Constructing American Selves
Quelle	In: Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 32 (2011) 4, S.547-563 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0159-6306
DOI	10.1080/01596306.2011.601552
Schlagwörter	Muslims; Females; Citizenship Education; Youth; Immigrants; Self Concept; Undergraduate Students; Guidelines; Ethnography; Vignettes; Religion; Nationalism; Race; Birth; Cultural Influences; Cultural Background; District of Columbia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Muslim; Muslimin; Weibliches Geschlecht; Citizenship; Education; Politische Bildung; Politische Erziehung; Staatsbürgerliche Erziehung; Jugend; Jugendlicher; Jugendalter; Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; Selbstkonzept; Richtlinien; Ethnografie; Nationalismus; Rasse; Abstammung; Geburt; Cultural influence; Kultureinfluss
Abstract	The scene for this paper is set in the USA immediately post-9/11 when the meaning of nation shifted dramatically, in turn shaping Muslim American identity. I examine Muslim American undergraduate women's performance of immigrant, gendered, youthful, Muslim and American identities. The findings are framed within symbolic interactionist, Foucauldian and cultural production frameworks, and I use ethnographic vignettes gathered during research in Washington, DC from 2002 to 2003 to illustrate the discursive and performative construction of an imagined American community by Muslim Americans and majority Americans respectively. Muslim American youth both experience and conduct acts of "everyday nationalism" and construct Muslim American citizenship, deploying and covering racial, cultural, religious and immigrant attributes contextually. Facets of identity such as birth, transnational ties, racial and facial features, cultural practices, types and degrees of religiosity, all come into play in a battle for survival that is at once personal, political, social and symbolic. (Contains 1 note.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10