Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Keyword
-
- *African Americans (1)
- *Cultural Characteristics (1)
- *Education of Hearing Disabled (1)
- *Education, Special (1)
- *European Continental Ancestry Group (1)
-
- *Reading (1)
- *Sign Language (1)
- Adolescent (1)
- Adult (1)
- Citizenship (1)
- Educational Measurement (1)
- Educational Status (1)
- Family Characteristics (1)
- Family Relations (1)
- Female (1)
- Humans (1)
- Immigrant youth (1)
- Male (1)
- Muslim (1)
- Persons With Hearing Impairments (1)
- Post 9/11 (1)
- Questionnaires (1)
- Social Support (1)
- United States (1)
- Working-class (1)
- Young Adult (1)
- Publication
Articles 1 - 2 of 2
Full-Text Articles in Race and Ethnicity
The Religification Of Pakistani-American Youth, Ameena Ghaffar-Kucher
The Religification Of Pakistani-American Youth, Ameena Ghaffar-Kucher
Ameena Ghaffar-Kucher
This article describes a cultural production process called religification, in which religious affiliation, rather than race or ethnicity, has become the core category of identity for working-class Pakistani-American youth in the United States. In this dialectical process, triggered by political changes following the September 11 terrorist attacks, the Muslim identity is both thrust upon Pakistani-American youth by those who question their citizenship and embraced by the youth themselves. Specifically, the article examines the ways in which schools are sites where citizenship is both constructed and contested and the roles that peers, school personnel, families, and the youth themselves play in …
Black Deaf Individuals' Reading Skills: Influence Of Asl, Culture, Family Characteristics, Reading Experience, And Education, Candace Myers, M. Diane Clark, Millicent Musyoka, Melissa Anderson, Gizelle Gilbert, Selina Agyen, Peter Hauser
Black Deaf Individuals' Reading Skills: Influence Of Asl, Culture, Family Characteristics, Reading Experience, And Education, Candace Myers, M. Diane Clark, Millicent Musyoka, Melissa Anderson, Gizelle Gilbert, Selina Agyen, Peter Hauser
Melissa L. Anderson
Previous research on the reading abilities of Deaf individuals from various cultural groups suggests that Black Deaf and Hispanic Deaf individuals lag behind their White Deaf peers. The present study compared the reading skills of Black Deaf and White Deaf individuals, investigating the influence of American Sign Language (ASL), culture, family characteristics, reading experience, and education. (The descriptor Black is used throughout the present article, as Black Deaf individuals prefer this term to African American. For purposes of parallel construction, the term White is used instead of European American.) It was found that Black Deaf study participants scored lower on …