Rebecca A Karam
Biographic Data
| ID | 195253 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rebecca A Karam |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rebecca A |
| FAMILY NAME | Karam |
| SIGNATURE | KARAM R A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Michigan State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7919-3869 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Seen but Unseen
Despite being legally classified as White, Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) people in the United States have long been racialized as non-White, producing an invisibility/hypervisibility paradox. In other racially minoritized communities, this paradox has been linked to harmful effects across multiple social, political, and economic domains, including higher education. Integrating literature on the racialization of MENA Americans with schol…
Nursing as ethnic capital
Agents of God
Uncertain safety
Muslim Americans and the Promise of Urban Belonging, by Alisa Perkins
In 2017, Hamtramck, Michigan (a 2.2-square mile city located within Detroit) made national headlines as it elected the first majority-Muslim city council in the United States. Indeed, this once famous center of Polish American life has undergone a major demographic shift as Muslims now make up at least 40% of the city’s total population. Hamtramck now claims the highest concentration of Muslim residents of any American city. Its diverse Muslim Am…
Meeting the Moral Markers of Success
Concerted cultivation describes how parents reproduce middle‐class status by preparing children for success through the organization of their family’s daily lives. Scholarship accounting for the potentially important role that minority religious identity plays in this process is warranted. The current study fills this theoretical and empirical niche by exploring the parenting practices of second‐generation, upper‐middle‐class Muslim Americans. I …
Becoming American by becoming Muslim
Strategic assimilation describes how individuals use boundary work to construct identities which allow them to selectively maintain ties to a minority community while assimilating into the mainstream. However, scholarship that accounts for the role that minority religious identity plays in these processes is warranted. The current study fills a theoretical and empirical niche by exploring boundary work among not only racial, but religious minorit…
Optional Ethnicity
Optional ethnicity, meaning the ability of some third‐ and fourth‐generation Americans to maintain voluntarily an ethnic identity, was first introduced by sociologist Mary C. Waters in 1990. Her work builds on Herbert Gans's foundational theory of symbolic ethnicity. Contemporary scholars continue to assess the idea of optional ethnicity by testing its applicability to America's “new” second generation and beyond.
Rust Belt Revitalization, Immigration, and Islam
Becoming American by becoming Muslim
Strategic assimilation describes how individuals use boundary work to construct identities which allow them to selectively maintain ties to a minority community while assimilating into the mainstream. However, scholarship that accounts for the role that minority religious identity plays in these processes is warranted. The current study fills a theoretical and empirical niche by exploring boundary work among not only racial, but religious minorit…
Meeting the Moral Markers of Success
Concerted cultivation describes how parents reproduce middle‐class status by preparing children for success through the organization of their family’s daily lives. Scholarship accounting for the potentially important role that minority religious identity plays in this process is warranted. The current study fills this theoretical and empirical niche by exploring the parenting practices of second‐generation, upper‐middle‐class Muslim Americans. I …
Rust Belt Revitalization, Immigration, and Islam
Optional Ethnicity
Optional ethnicity, meaning the ability of some third‐ and fourth‐generation Americans to maintain voluntarily an ethnic identity, was first introduced by sociologist Mary C. Waters in 1990. Her work builds on Herbert Gans's foundational theory of symbolic ethnicity. Contemporary scholars continue to assess the idea of optional ethnicity by testing its applicability to America's “new” second generation and beyond.
Rust Belt Revitalization, Immigration, and Islam
Becoming American by becoming Muslim
Strategic assimilation describes how individuals use boundary work to construct identities which allow them to selectively maintain ties to a minority community while assimilating into the mainstream. However, scholarship that accounts for the role that minority religious identity plays in these processes is warranted. The current study fills a theoretical and empirical niche by exploring boundary work among not only racial, but religious minorit…
Muslim Americans and the Promise of Urban Belonging, by Alisa Perkins
In 2017, Hamtramck, Michigan (a 2.2-square mile city located within Detroit) made national headlines as it elected the first majority-Muslim city council in the United States. Indeed, this once famous center of Polish American life has undergone a major demographic shift as Muslims now make up at least 40% of the city’s total population. Hamtramck now claims the highest concentration of Muslim residents of any American city. Its diverse Muslim Am…
Meeting the Moral Markers of Success
Concerted cultivation describes how parents reproduce middle‐class status by preparing children for success through the organization of their family’s daily lives. Scholarship accounting for the potentially important role that minority religious identity plays in this process is warranted. The current study fills this theoretical and empirical niche by exploring the parenting practices of second‐generation, upper‐middle‐class Muslim Americans. I …
Uncertain safety
Agents of God
Seen but Unseen
Despite being legally classified as White, Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) people in the United States have long been racialized as non-White, producing an invisibility/hypervisibility paradox. In other racially minoritized communities, this paradox has been linked to harmful effects across multiple social, political, and economic domains, including higher education. Integrating literature on the racialization of MENA Americans with schol…
Nursing as ethnic capital
Racial and Ethnic Identity Research (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Ethnic group (4 works) · Islam (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works)