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Knight, Michelle G.; Watson, Vaughn W. M. – American Educational Research Journal, 2014
Rendering visible African immigrants' shared and differing experiences of civic learning and action, the authors present findings from in-depth semi-structured interviews with second- and 1.5-generation African immigrants in New York City. Drawing on an interdisciplinary framework of African immigrant identities constructions and civic engagement,…
Descriptors: Civics, Citizenship Education, Immigrants, African Americans
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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