Reimagining the Flat Muslim: A Case Study Investigating the Experiences of Liminal Subjectivities as They "Learn" About Themselves in World History Classrooms

• In Event: 26.022 - Identity and Spatial Restructuring: Transnational Hopes/Local Realities

Abstract

This qualitative case study investigates seven sectarian-minority Muslim girls’ experience of the curriculum on Islam in high school World History courses. Informed by theories of positionality and performativity, preliminary analysis suggests that participants find an internal incongruity with the curriculum’s discourse on Islam while outwardly expressing uniformity with it.

Author

• Natasha Merchant, University of Washington