ERIC Number: ED647265
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2022
Pages: 194
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ISBN: 979-8-3514-2814-7
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U.S. Muslim College Students' Spatialization of Their Muslimness: An Exploration of Muslim Linguistic and Cultural Identities across Social Spaces
Ibrahim Demir
ProQuest LLC, Ph.D. Dissertation, The University of New Mexico
The purpose of this multiple-case study was to explore how four US-born Muslim college students spatialized their linguistic and cultural identities within and across their social, academic, and religious spaces. The data were collected through detailed and in-depth data collection methods involving multiple sources of information: observations in the above-mentioned spaces, focus group interviews, autobiographies, drawings, images, and narratives. The data were analyzed through spatial analytical perspectives. This study was drawn on Lefebvre's (1991) Spatial triad of "perceived," "conceived," and "lived spaces," Soja's (1996) interpretation of spatiality and Thirdspace, and Bhabha's (2004) concept of Hybridity. This study presented how the US-born Muslim college students negotiate their collective and personal identities across these spaces. In the study, their schooling experiences were further analyzed to explore how they have nurtured their Muslimness. The study findings revealed that US-born Muslim college student participants of this study developed a sense of "belonging" to both Muslimness and Americanness and experienced "otherness" also in both Muslim and American spaces. The participants further developed linguistically and culturally hybrid identities and wholistic self-perception through the enunciation of their differences in both Muslim and American spatial practices. This hybrid and whole identity; in other words, the Thirdspace of "Muslimerican" identity was developed through the process of a constant negotiation of their spatial practices that disrupt norms that were socially and historically imposed across social spaces. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://bibliotheek.ehb.be:2222/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.]
Descriptors: Muslims, College Students, Cultural Background, Self Concept, Student Attitudes, Freehand Drawing, Personal Narratives, Arabs, North Americans, Educational Experience, Religious Factors, Biculturalism, Arabic, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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