Muslim cool : race, religion, and hip hop in the United States af Su'ad Abdul Khabeer (1978-) (Bog)

Forfatter: Su'ad Abdul Khabeer (1978-)
Sprog: Engelsk
Antal sider: 285
Forlag: New York University Press
Udgivelsesår: 2016
Summary: This groundbreaking study of race, religion and popular culture in the 21st century United States focuses on a new concept, "Muslim Cool." Muslim Cool is a way of being an American Muslim-displayed in ideas, dress, social activism in the 'hood, and in complex relationships to state power. Constructed through hip hop and the performance of Blackness, Muslim Cool is a way of engaging with the Black American experience by both Black and non-Black young Muslims that challenges racist norms in the U.S. as well as dominant ethnic and religious structures within American Muslim communities. Drawing on over two years of ethnographic research, Su'ad Abdul Khabeer illuminates the ways in which young and multiethnic U.S. Muslims draw on Blackness to construct their identities as Muslims. This is a form of critical Muslim self-making that builds on interconnections and intersections, rather than divisions between "Black" and "Muslim." Thus, by countering the notion that Blackness and the Muslim experience are fundamentally different, Muslim Cool poses a critical challenge to dominant ideas that Muslims are "foreign" to the United States and puts Blackness at the center of the study of American Islam. Yet Muslim Cool also demonstrates that connections to Blackness made through hip hop are critical and contested-critical because they push back against the pervasive phenomenon of anti-Blackness and contested because questions of race, class, gender, and nationality continue to complicate self-making in the United States
Titel: Muslim cool : race, religion, and hip hop in the United States
Genre: kunst_kultur
Sammendrag: Bogen undersøger, hvordan unge, fleretniske amerikanske muslimer bruger hiphop og sort amerikansk kultur til at skabe en “Muslim Cool” identitet. Gennem etnografisk feltarbejde – bl.a. i Chicago – analyserer Su'ad Abdul Khabeer, hvordan Blackness bruges som ressource til at forstå sig selv som muslim og amerikaner, og hvordan dette udfordrer både antimuslimsk racisme og anti-sorte strukturer i muslimske miljøer. Forfatteren viser, hvordan forbindelser til Black Power, hiphop-aktivisme, social retfærdighed og faith-based organizing placerer sorthed i centrum for amerikansk islam og gør op med forestillingen om muslimer som fremmede. Bogen diskuterer også, hvordan race, klasse, køn og nationalitet præger mulighederne for kritisk muslimsk selvskabelse i USA.
Type: Paperback