Muslim - Annotated Bibliography Example

Nermin S. Sabry & Katherine R. Bruna. (2007). Learning from the Experience of Muslim in American Schools: Towards a Proactive Model of School-Community Cooperation. Iowa: Multicultural Perspectives, 9(3), 44–50These article talks about the challenges faced by young Muslims studying in US, these challenges are normally fueled through misinformation about Islamic teachings propagated through the press, international media and preconceived biased minds. One example that supports what the article is talking about is a concern raised by a Muslim student in US.

A social studies teacher once said in classroom when he was teaching about the Middle East that the region is of peace heaters, this embarrassed the student. I will use this source to show how Muslim community experience the negative effects of cultural mismatch in US schools. Jasmin Zine. (2001). Muslim Youth in Canadian Schools: Education and the Politics of Religious Identity. American Anthropological Association. Toronto: Anthropology & Education Quarterly 32(4):399-423. This article explains the in-depth knowledge on the experience the Muslim youths in Canada who wants to maintain their Islamic culture face from the dominant culture.

The article also shows how Muslim students are able to negotiate and maintain their religious culture within secular public schools. A 22 year old student by the name Karim from Pakistan who were educated in Canadian school explains the struggles between conformity and resistance as a process of maintaining its identity. He explains that ‘it is challenging to live in a white society trying to be accepted while at the same time struggling to practice Islam, in his experience he found out that it takes many years to build up.

The article contains information on the challenges the Muslim students goes through in Canadian schools and how they are able to negotiate and maintain their culture within the secular institutions. Jasmin Zine. (2006).Unveiled Sentiments: Gendered Islamophobia and Experiences of Veiling among Muslim Girls in a Canadian Islamic School. Equity & Excellence in Education. Taylor and francis group: Massachusetts, 39: 239–252.The author of this article explains the ethno-religious oppression facing the Muslim girls studying at gender segregated Islamic schools, how the young girls reside at the nexus of dual oppression, confronting racism and Islamophobia in the society, also withstanding the patriarchal types of religious oppression in their communities.

One example that supports this oppression is banning of hijab in public schools in France. The article contains the information on gendering Islamophobia, the politics of veiling, and veiling in public and Islamic schools, and their challenges. Cynthia W. Tindongan. (2011). Negotiating Muslim Youth Identity in a Post-9/11 World. Ohio: The University of North Carolina Press, P.72-87 The article talks about postcolonial and transnational theories and post 9/11 disposition as frameworks for finding out the live experience of Muslim immigrants youths in US public schools, and how Muslims youths are viewed after the 9/11 attack.

The 9/11 attack has had a repercussion on the lives of Muslims students in US. The attack led to islamphobia hysteria and provoked the war on terror, this has led into the formation of Islamic movements and terrorism, and this led to more discrimination and prejudice against Islamic students in US secular schools. The article contains information on how young Muslim students have felt the brunt of the backlash after the terror attack in their respective schools.