Muslim Student Leaders Disrupt Anti-Muslim Racisms

• In Event: Toward Increased Cultural Connectedness, Race-Consciousness, and Critical Care: School Administrator and Student Perspectives

Abstract

This study examines how Muslim students exist as school community leaders in settings where their activism engaged policy implementation and curriculum practices to disrupt anti-Muslim racism. This study is framed using MusCrit, a Muslim critical race theory that centers the unique experiences of Muslim Americans. Findings of this empirical study reveal three themes of Muslim students enacting school community leadership:
a. Anti-Muslim racism experienced as epistemological injustice;
b. School community leaders mobilized new relationships with school administrators to transform policy implementation; and,
c. Curriculum practices were challenged to disrupt anti-Muslim racism.

Author

• Amaarah N. DeCuir, American University