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Ghaffar-Kucher, Ameena – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2015
Drawing on ethnographic data, this article examines the complex terrain that working-class Pakistani-American youth must negotiate in their daily lives. Specifically, the article illustrates how particular views of Islam and Americanization manifest in particular sites and within educational discourses, and the resulting dissonance that youth…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Muslims, Working Class, Arabs
Ghaffar-Kucher, Ameena – American Educational Research Journal, 2012
This article describes a cultural production process called religification, in which religious affiliation, rather than race or ethnicity, has become the core category of identity for working-class Pakistani-American youth in the United States. In this dialectical process, triggered by political changes following the September 11 terrorist…
Descriptors: Terrorism, Citizenship, Youth, School Personnel