ERIC Number: EJ1436025
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024-Aug
Pages: 18
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0742-5627
EISSN: EISSN-1573-1758
MENASA Campus Cultural Centers as Sites of Inclusion and Belonging in the Aftermath of the U.S. Presidential 2016 Election
Innovative Higher Education, v49 n4 p665-682 2024
Following the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Islamophobia became increasingly visible across the U.S, impacting anyone perceived to be Muslim. Despite being named after a religion, Islamophobia is a racial ideology predominantly targeting people of Middle Eastern, North African, and South Asian (MENASA) descent. In this qualitative study, the author explores how MENASA students navigated their college campuses in the period shortly following the 2016 election through examining the ways in which MENASA-focused cultural centers provided spaces of inclusion and belonging. The findings suggest that processes of racial formation and panethnic identity formation influenced the experiences of MENASA students in this period. Students demonstrated both a clear sense of racialization outside of whiteness, and the beginnings of panethnic identity formation across groups. These findings are situated in the particular temporal context of college-aged adults who both experienced 9/11 as young children and the 2016 presidential election in early adulthood.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elections, Islam, Muslims, Social Bias, Racism, College Students, Cultural Centers, Inclusion, Sense of Community, Self Concept, Student Attitudes, Religion, Campuses, Educational Environment
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: Institute of Education Sciences (ED)
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Identifiers - Location: Africa; Asia; Middle East; United States
IES Funded: Yes
Grant or Contract Numbers: R305B200010