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Counter-Narratives Of Palestinian-American Youth: Resistance, Resilience And Transnational Identity, Kelly Delaney

Doctoral Dissertations

This qualitative research study explores how students in Northern California public schools are navigating the space between being Palestinian and being American while preserving and reconstructing Palestinian cultural ties and traditions. It also examines the ways in which schools and educators can better support students in this process of negotiation and development of a positive transnational identity. Through the collection of counter-narratives, this research works to disrupt the Islamophobic dominant narrative that pervades the educational system and other institutions as well as the wider society in the United States.

The findings of this research include the identification of Islamophobia as …