Amal Elassi
Biographic Data
| ID | 8676013 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amal Elassi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amal |
| FAMILY NAME | Elassi |
| SIGNATURE | ELASSI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| ORCID | 0009-0006-5988-7533 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The languages of faith and belonging: Sociolinguistic repertoires of two American Muslim girls of West African descent
“They Should Have Taught Us It Was Not Either Or”: Muslim Adolescent Girls Negotiate Their In-Between Spaces
As they navigate public schools and Islamic weekend school settings, Muslim American adolescent girls negotiate gendered, linguistic, racial, and religious identities across contexts that often frame being Muslim and being American as oppositional. This qualitative study examines how these adolescents construct in-between spaces through which they manage belonging, legitimacy, and constraint across multiple, and sometimes conflicting, social envi…
Wearing Meaning: Hijab, Critical Knowledge, and Gendered Responsibility
This instrumental case study explores how a sixteen-year-old American Muslim girl of Indian descent negotiates the layered meanings of hijab across educational and religious spaces. Drawing on feminist and postcolonial frameworks, the study examines how hijab becomes a site of religious devotion, embodied identity, and negotiated responsibility. Based on interviews, observations, and thematic analysis, the paper highlights four themes: evolving m…
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The languages of faith and belonging: Sociolinguistic repertoires of two American Muslim girls of West African descent
“They Should Have Taught Us It Was Not Either Or”: Muslim Adolescent Girls Negotiate Their In-Between Spaces
As they navigate public schools and Islamic weekend school settings, Muslim American adolescent girls negotiate gendered, linguistic, racial, and religious identities across contexts that often frame being Muslim and being American as oppositional. This qualitative study examines how these adolescents construct in-between spaces through which they manage belonging, legitimacy, and constraint across multiple, and sometimes conflicting, social envi…
Wearing Meaning: Hijab, Critical Knowledge, and Gendered Responsibility
This instrumental case study explores how a sixteen-year-old American Muslim girl of Indian descent negotiates the layered meanings of hijab across educational and religious spaces. Drawing on feminist and postcolonial frameworks, the study examines how hijab becomes a site of religious devotion, embodied identity, and negotiated responsibility. Based on interviews, observations, and thematic analysis, the paper highlights four themes: evolving m…
Education and Islamic Studies (2 works) · Faith (2 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (2 works) · African american (1 works) · African descent (1 works) · Dual (grammatical number) (1 works) · Embodied cognition (1 works) · Ethnic group (1 works) · Girl (1 works) · Grounded theory (1 works)