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Title: Muslim Cool: Race, Religion, and Hip Hop in the United States
Author: Su'ad Abdul Khabeer
Narrator: Ja'air Bush
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 10 hours 53 minutes
Release date: March 26, 2024
Genres: Social Science
Publisher's Summary:
This groundbreaking study of race, religion, and popular culture in the twenty-first 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. Su'ad Abdul Khabeer illuminates the ways in which young and multiethnic US Muslims draw on Blackness to construct their identities as Muslims. 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.
Title: Muslim Cool: Race, Religion, and Hip Hop in the United States
Author: Su'ad Abdul Khabeer
Narrator: Ja'air Bush
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 10 hours 53 minutes
Release date: March 26, 2024
Genres: Social Science
Publisher's Summary:
This groundbreaking study of race, religion, and popular culture in the twenty-first 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. Su'ad Abdul Khabeer illuminates the ways in which young and multiethnic US Muslims draw on Blackness to construct their identities as Muslims. 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.
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