عنوان

How YouTube Made the Hijab Cool: Race, Gender, and Authority in the American Ummah

Number

TL49483

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

انگلیسی

Title Proper

How YouTube Made the Hijab Cool: Race, Gender, and Authority in the American Ummah

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Kayla Renée Wheeler

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Turner, Richard B.; Nabhan-Warren, Kristy

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

The University of Iowa

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2017

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

183

Text of Note

Committee members: Hammer, Juliane; Smith, Fred; Supp-Montgomerie, Jenna; Whaley, Deborah

Text of Note

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-0-355-10893-4

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D.

Discipline of degree

Religious Studies

Body granting the degree

The University of Iowa

Text preceding or following the note

2017

Text of Note

This dissertation provides a critical discursive analysis of videos, blogs, and social media posts created by two African-American Muslim women who live in the Southern United States, Najwa Niang and Nadira Abdul-Quddus, who make up the, group, Muslimah2Muslimah. As African-American women who do not speak Arabic, Najwa and Nadira fall outside of normative institutions of Islamic learning. Thus, they have taken to YouTube to create their own interpretive communities based on their interpretations of English translated versions of the Qur'an and hadith. Through fashion and beauty tutorials on YouTube, Najwa and Nadira they perform a new Muslim cool, centering their Blackness, and challenging hegemonic formulations of Islam that subordinate African-Americans. I argue that for Najwa and Nadira, fashion is a form of embodied theology. The use their stylized bodies to reimagine religious authority, knowledge transmission, and the image of Muslim womanhood by centering Black expressive culture. My dissertation provides an important intervention in the fields of religious studies and material Islam, highlighting how debates around race and gender are enacted in everyday life.

Religion

Subject Term

Philosophy, religion and theology;Fashion;Hijab;Islam;YouTube Vlogs

Al Harrasi, Shawana Masad

Turner, Richard B.; Nabhan-Warren, Kristy

Subdivision

Religious Studies

The University of Iowa

Call Number

1933727041; 10263267

Electronic name

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[Thesis]

276903

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