Black Muslim Girls Navigating Multiple Oppositional Binaries Through Literacy and Letter Writing

Dados Bibliográficos

ID8923799
AutoresSherell A Mcarthur (0000-0002-1214-3274, Boston University, autor correspondente), Gholnecsar E Muhammad (0009-0006-5917-156X, Georgia State University)
Ano2017
Volume53
Fascículo1
Páginas63-77
Data de publicação2017-01-02
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEducational Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0013-1946 • E-ISSN: 1532-6993
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00131946.2016.1263635
OpenAlexW2563512897
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas25
Referências citadas25

Writing alongside 12 African American Muslim girls, we led a summer literacy program in an effort to understand how Black Muslim adolescent girls write about their identities and ideas. The 4-week literacy program was designed to engage and support Black Muslim girls, aged 12–17 years old, in reading, writing, and understanding the multiple contexts that inform their worlds. The girls received writing instruction connected to their experiences and identities in an environment that afforded them time to represent their situated worlds of being Black, Muslim, and girls in the United States. In this qualitative inquiry, we investigated the following research question: How would Black Muslim girls write to encourage a future generation to navigate multiple identities? The participants penned letters to a future generation of African American Muslim girls. Drawing upon methods of thematic analysis, we found that themes of sisterhood and unity, shattering misrepresentations, empowerment, strength through faith, knowledge (education), and speaking up and fighting for rights emerged. These themes indicate the messages Muslim girls write are indicative of the multiple identities they navigate and speaks to how they would encourage youth who share their complex racialized-gender religious identities, as well as the need to open the conversation on Black education to center both Black girls and Black Muslim girls

Conversation · Empowerment · Faith · Literacy · Pedagogy · Political science · Qualitative research · Reading (process · Situated · Social science · Sociology · Thematic analysis · Early Childhood Education and Development · Education and Islamic Studies · Gender Studies · Parental Involvement in Education · Psychology