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Hafez Taha Alawdi – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this narrative qualitative study was to investigate the impact of ethnic/racial ambiguity and legal invisibility on racial identity perception and experiences of differential treatment of Arab and Arab American Muslim students at U.S. public higher education institutions. Guided by the multilevel model of intersectionality…
Descriptors: Arabs, North Americans, Muslims, College Students
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Philip, Thomas M. – Urban Education, 2013
Understanding teaching as a political act is often assumed to be a strength for teachers; however, this assumption conceals important aspects of their processes of becoming politicized. I argue that seeing teaching as a political act can be a liability for prospective teachers of color who engaged with college student activism if these assumed…
Descriptors: Activism, Teacher Education Programs, Urban Schools, Race
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Tsai, Kim M.; Fuligni, Andrew J. – Developmental Psychology, 2012
This article examined changes in ethnic identity as a function of college type and residential status and whether differences due to college type could be explained by involvement in extracurricular activities and college ethnic composition. Although no changes in ethnic labeling or belonging were found, there was a normative decrease in ethnic…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Extracurricular Activities, Self Concept, Institutional Characteristics
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Wright, J. W., Jr. – Journal of Intergroup Relations, 1997
It is paradoxical that discriminatory measures like California's Proposition 187 push immigrants and their children into entrepreneurial self-employment, at which many increase their incomes. The situation of Arab Americans illustrates the case of an ethnic group that is wealthy in the face of persistent prejudice. (SLD)
Descriptors: Arabs, Discriminatory Legislation, Economic Factors, Employment Patterns