The purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore how young Arab Muslim women attending college, in the United States and France, negotiate their identity vis-á-vis multiple contexts of citizenship in secular state, gender, religion, culture, and race. Sixteen interviews…
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This ethnographic study examines the processes of identity negotiation among immigrant children at a Cypriot public primary school. It particularly focuses on the ways in which children situate themselves in, through, and across contexts (the home, the school, the playground) of…
There is continued pressure for girls to formulate a positive identity in a society that privileges specific identity constructions along the lines of race, class, gender, ethnicity, sexuality and religion. This difficulty, however, may be even greater for a teen girl who also j…
The research problem studied was the conversion experiences of African-American Christian women converts to Islam ("AAMC") and their relationship with their African-American Christian family members and friends ("AACSO"). This dissertation examined these two relationships from R…
Higher education’s history of race-based exclusion and marginalization goes against the values of a new diverse and multicultural learning environment as imagined in a modern-day society (Hurtado et al. 1999; 2012). For Black administrators at Predominantly White Institutions (P…
Based on a careful ethnographic study of a racially and ethnically diverse immigrant mosque in a mid-sized Midwestern city, I examine the divergent perspectives developed by a group of immigrant Muslims about the American reality and their Muslim entity. The core question is tha…