Facing Race: White Australian Converts to Islam
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- Synopsis
- The figure of 'the Muslim' is constructed by both Muslim and non-Muslim Australians as incongruent with whiteness, but what of white Muslim converts, who are at once highly racialised and racially invisible? Facing Race explores the lived experiences of thirty-six Australian converts to Islam, in a nation where Islam is cast in opposition to the dominant racial narrative of whiteness that informs the nation's core ideology. Drawing on in-depth interviews, author Oishee Alam provides a fascinating account of how racialisation is reproduced in everyday interpersonal encounters by white converts, with Muslims and non-Muslims alike - and what those experiences reveal to us about race, Islamophobia and whiteness in contemporary Australia. Islamic Studies Series - Volume 26
- Copyright:
- 2018
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- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9780522874938
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780522874921
- Publisher:
- Melbourne University Publishing
- Date of Addition:
- 02/03/25
- Copyrighted By:
- Oishee Alam
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Religion and Spirituality, Social Studies
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- Bookshare Staff
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- This is a copyrighted book.
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