"The Beauty of America": Nationalism, Education, and the War on Terror

Autor/in	Abu El-Haj, Thea Renda
Titel	"The Beauty of America": Nationalism, Education, and the War on Terror
Quelle	In: Harvard Educational Review, 80 (2010) 2, S.242-275 (34 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0017-8055
Schlagwörter	High School Students; Immigrants; Muslims; Political Attitudes; Political Socialization; Qualitative Research; Nationalism; Student Attitudes; Youth; Stranger Reactions; Role of Education; Palestine; United States + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; Muslim; Muslimin; Political attitude; Politische Einstellung; Politische Sozialisation; Qualitative Forschung; Nationalismus; Schülerverhalten; Jugend; Jugendlicher; Jugendalter; Fremdenprüfung; Bildungsauftrag; Palästina; USA
Abstract	In this article, Thea Renda Abu El-Haj draws on qualitative research conducted with Palestinian American high school students to explore school as a key site for nation building. By focusing on their teachers' talk and practice, she examines how U.S. nationalism and national identities are produced through everyday racialized and gendered discourses and practices inside one school. She argues that this nation building is deeply entwined with the cultural logic that undergirds U.S. imperial ambitions in relation to the current "war on terror" and explores how productions of everyday nationalism and national belonging define an "American" identity in opposition to cultural and political traits and values assumed to characterize Islam. Ultimately, Abu El-Haj demonstrates how complex discourses about the United States engender a view of education as alternately a liberating and disciplining force for Arab American youth. She concludes with implications for educating teachers "to better address the complexities of teaching in contemporary contexts of global migration, transnationalism, and the war on terror." (Contains 7 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10