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9780812218947

All American Yemeni Girls

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  • ISBN13:

    9780812218947

  • ISBN10:

    0812218949

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2005-01-03
  • Publisher: Univ of Pennsylvania Pr

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Summary

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

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Being American, Being Yemeni: Uncovering a Predicament
1(20)
American Sojourners Between Honor and Shame
21(25)
Classroom as Oasis
46(13)
Islam and Conflicting Visions of Literacy
59(25)
The Tensions Teachers Face: Public Education and Islam
84(26)
From Aspiration to Desperation and Living in Ambiguity
110(10)
Living Ethnography: Reflections on Dearborn Before and After September 11
120(19)
Notes 139(6)
Bibliography 145(8)
Index 153(4)
Acknowledgments 157

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