عنوان

Making Muslim identities: Contested meaning, identities, and racialization of Islam in Saint Louis, Missouri

Number

TL48373

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

انگلیسی

Title Proper

Making Muslim identities: Contested meaning, identities, and racialization of Islam in Saint Louis, Missouri

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Bethany Beyyette

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Hill, Jonathan D.

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Southern Illinois University at Carbondale

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2015

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

331

Text of Note

Committee members: Barrios, Roberto; Fuller, Janet M.; Rana, Junaid; Reed, Jean-Pierre

Text of Note

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-94353-5

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D.

Discipline of degree

Anthropology

Body granting the degree

Southern Illinois University at Carbondale

Text preceding or following the note

2015

Text of Note

This dissertation addresses what it means to be a Muslim and an American and the challenges that some ethnically different American Muslims face in constructing American Islamic social identities. While practitioners of Islam profess anti-racist ideologies, the American Muslim community has a complex underlying hierarchy with sharp divisions between African-American Muslims, Euro-American Muslims, and various immigrant Muslim communities. In addition, the tendency to favor traditionalist interpretations of Islam, and the reduction of Arab experience as the primary way to experience Islam are conflicts internal to the Muslim community as well. This has created a division in the Muslim community between traditionalist and modernist approaches to Islam. The result of these hierarchies is that certain ethnic groups and religious sects are delegitimized by more powerful ethnic groups and sectarian communities, and separatist ideologies about Islam result. The goal of this research is to examine how American Muslims negotiate their identity both in the public sphere and within the Muslim community from which many often feel a sense of separation. In addition, I will review historic and current social strategies used by different ethnic constituents of American Muslims to define themselves as a unique and authentic sector of Islam.

African American Studies; Religion; Cultural anthropology

Subject Term

Philosophy, religion and theology;Social sciences;Cultural politics;Identities;Missouri;Muslims;Race relations;Social inequality;St. louis

Mustafa, Mentor

Hill, Jonathan D.

Subdivision

Anthropology

Southern Illinois University at Carbondale

Call Number

1711144884; 3715988

Electronic name

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[Thesis]

276903

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