TY  - BOOK
AU  - Khan,Aisha
TI  - Islam and the Americas
T2  - New world diasporas
SN  - 9780813055077
AV  - BP67.A1 I765 2015eb
U1  - 305.6/97097 23
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - Gainesville
PB  - University Press of Florida
KW  - Islam
KW  - North America
KW  - South America
KW  - Muslims
KW  - Amérique du Nord
KW  - Amérique du Sud
KW  - Musulmans
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Discrimination & Race Relations
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Minority Studies
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - General
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: A storied hemisphere / Aisha Khan -- Contours: approaching Islam, comparatively speaking / Aisha Khan -- Histories: presence, absence, remaking -- "Oriental hieroglyphics understood only by the priesthood and a choosen few": the Islamic orientalism -- Of white and black masons and shriners / Jacob S. Dorman -- Locating Mecca: religious and political discord in the Javanese community in pre-independence Suriname / Rosemarijn Hoefte -- Fear of a brown planet: Pan-Islamism, black nationalism, and the tribal twenties / Nathaniel Deutsch -- insha{p}Allah/Ojalá, yes yes y'all: Puerto Ricans (re)examining and (re)imagining their identities through Islam and hip hop / Omar Ramadan-Santiago -- Circulation of identities, politics of belonging -- Between terror and transcendence: global narratives of Islam and the political scripts of Guadeloupe's Indianity / Yarimar Bonilla -- The politics of conversion to Islam in southern Mexico / Sandra Cañas Cuevas -- Bahamian and Brazilian Muslimahs: struggle for identity and belonging / Jerusa Ali -- Spatial practices and the Trinidadian landscape -- "Up against a wall"?: Muslim women's struggle to reclaim Masjid space in Trinidad and Tobago / Rhoda Reddock -- Democracy, gender, and Indian Muslim modernity in Trinidad / Gabrielle Jamela Hosein -- More than Dawud and Jalut: decriminalizing the Jamaat al Muslimeen and Madressa in Trinidad / Jeanne P. Baptiste -- Island currents, global aesthetics: Islamic iconography in Trinidad / Patricia Mohammed
N2  - This volume edited by Aisha Khan explores Muslims' lived experiences in the Western Hemisphere and the ways in which Islam has been codified in the New World by "Muslim minority" societies, using disparate case studies from the Caribbean, Suriname, Brazil, Mexico, and others in the Atlantic World
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