American Muslim (Un)Exceptionalism: #BlackLivesMatter and #BringBackOurGirls
The acceptance and performance of Americanness as defined by a dominant discourse is manifest in the ways Muslims express their religious identification and acquiesce to the issues that are important to the state. In this article, we choose one particular example to highlight a trajectory of respons...
| Subtitles: | Black Lives Matter? Africana Religious Responses to State Violence |
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| Authors: | ; |
| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Published: |
The Pennsylvania State University Press
[2015]
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| In: |
Journal of Africana religions
Year: 2015, Volume: 3, Issue: 4, Pages: 478-495 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Said, Nicholas 1836-1882
/ Nigeria
/ USA
/ Blacks
/ Muslim
/ Disregard
/ Press
/ Present
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| IxTheo Classification: | BJ Islam KBN Sub-Saharan Africa KBQ North America NCC Social ethics TJ Modern history TK Recent history ZB Sociology ZG Media studies; Digital media; Communication studies |
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Volltext (Verlag) Volltext (doi) |
| Summary: | The acceptance and performance of Americanness as defined by a dominant discourse is manifest in the ways Muslims express their religious identification and acquiesce to the issues that are important to the state. In this article, we choose one particular example to highlight a trajectory of responses that limits Muslim history in the United States to positive and uncritical representations of the self, thereby circumscribing avenues of dissent and challenges to authority. |
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| ISSN: | 2165-5413 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of Africana religions
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5325/jafrireli.3.4.0478 |