Nimo Abdi
Biographic Data
| ID | 6006817 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nimo Abdi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nimo |
| FAMILY NAME | Abdi |
| SIGNATURE | ABDI N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA |
| ORCID | 0009-0000-6799-5370 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
“Our Mothers’ Arms”
We use collaborative ethnography and ethnodrama to explore our experiences as mothers: a Somali-born Black mother, and U.S.-born white (working-class) mother. We contend that motherhood is a pivotal experience that politicizes those who experience it in significant ways. We seek to reveal the demands of the system of racial capitalism that exploits the labor of women to avoid providing an adequate safety net for its citizens (Calarco, 2024). This…
Literacy as social (media) practice
Racism? Administrative and Community Perspectives in Data-Driven Decision Making
This case study describes tensions that became apparent between community members and school administrators after a proposal to close a historically African American public high school in a large urban Southwestern city. When members of the city’s longstanding African American community responded with outrage, the school district’s senior administration backed away from their proposal to close the school, despite making what it felt was a “neutra…
Racism? Administrative and Community Perspectives in Data-Driven Decision Making
This case study describes tensions that became apparent between community members and school administrators after a proposal to close a historically African American public high school in a large urban Southwestern city. When members of the city’s longstanding African American community responded with outrage, the school district’s senior administration backed away from their proposal to close the school, despite making what it felt was a “neutra…
Literacy as social (media) practice
Racism? Administrative and Community Perspectives in Data-Driven Decision Making
This case study describes tensions that became apparent between community members and school administrators after a proposal to close a historically African American public high school in a large urban Southwestern city. When members of the city’s longstanding African American community responded with outrage, the school district’s senior administration backed away from their proposal to close the school, despite making what it felt was a “neutra…
Literacy as social (media) practice
“Our Mothers’ Arms”
We use collaborative ethnography and ethnodrama to explore our experiences as mothers: a Somali-born Black mother, and U.S.-born white (working-class) mother. We contend that motherhood is a pivotal experience that politicizes those who experience it in significant ways. We seek to reveal the demands of the system of racial capitalism that exploits the labor of women to avoid providing an adequate safety net for its citizens (Calarco, 2024). This…
Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Administration (probate law) (1 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 works) · Capitalism (1 works) · Community organizing (1 works) · Context (archaeology (1 works) · Criminology (1 works) · Critical race theory (1 works)