Radicalized, Fundamentalist, and Terrorist: Muslim College Students and Their Ascribed Identities

Session Submission Type: Symposium

Abstract

“Non Satis Scire: To Know Is Not Enough:” to know or identify issues that Muslim college students are faced with is not enough. This symposium provides four paper presentations, which examine the ethnic, racial, religious, cultural, and geopolitical identities of Muslim College students and Muslim students’ contribution to campus diversity. We employed ethnographic, quantitative, and legal analysis to support our findings that suggest the perceptions and assaults against Muslims and people of Middle Eastern and Southeast Asian descent continue as their citizenship and individual identity is minimized and seemingly replaced with a negative racialized group identity – “the other” - the potential Muslim terrorists on a Jihad against Americans.

Sub Unit

• Division J - Postsecondary Education / Section 1: College Student Learning and Development

Chair

• Darnell G. Cole, University of Southern California

Papers

• Sticks and Stones May Break my Bones, but Words Will (Never?) Hurt Me! - Shafiqa Ahmadi, University of Southern California

• What’s Religion Got To Do With It? - Darnell G. Cole, University of Southern California

• Discursive Constructions of Good Muslims and Normal Americans: Ethnographic Data on Campus Culture - Shabana Mir, Millikin University

• Strategic Deployments and Engagements of Americanism and Citizenship Among Muslim College Students - Arshad Imtiaz Ali, Institute of Education - University of London

Discussant

• Shafiqa Ahmadi, University of Southern California