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Imagining Postnationalism: Arts, Citizenship Education, and Arab American Youth
Author(s) -
ElHaj Thea Renda Abu
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
anthropology and education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1548-1492
pISSN - 0161-7761
DOI - 10.1111/j.1548-1492.2009.01025.x
Subject(s) - citizenship , the arts , sociology , democracy , politics , youth studies , immigration , gender studies , argument (complex analysis) , civics , the symbolic , citizenship education , youth work , media studies , pedagogy , political science , law , psychology , biochemistry , chemistry , psychoanalysis
This article explores an Arab American community arts organization as a site for promoting youth civic participation and social activism. Studying a citizenship education project outside the school walls, and focusing on the arts as a medium for this work, foregrounds the role of the symbolic for engaging youth as active participants in democratic society. The article also examines the symbolic political argument for postnational citizenship that the young participants articulated through a film they produced. [Arab American youth, citizenship education, arts, immigration]