CCT200H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Islamophobia, Community Organizing, Racialization
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Khabeer, su"ad abdul: introduction to muslim cool: race, religion, and hip hop in the united states. Iman & teachers of muslim cool: researcher anchored by inner-city muslim action network (iman) muslim run non-profit providing services, community organizing, arts-based activism in southwest chicago. Iman as source of knowledge place of teachers who share knowledge and experiences. American normativity: hegemonic ethnoreligious norms of arab and south asian us american muslim communities = dynamic of immigrants of muslims to us where certain demographics of. American: racialized as brown and not black, hip hop and islam contemporarily imagined as worlds far apart or occasionally source of radicalization of young muslims. Loop is hip hop sampling technique where selected piece of music looped over and over as part of creation of new piece of music. The loop: metaphor for linkages between islam, hip hop, and blackness in 21st century that create muslim.