Claiming Belonging (eBook)

Muslim American Advocacy in an Era of Islamophobia

Emily Cury (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
222 Seiten
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5017-5360-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Claiming Belonging dives deep into the lives of Muslim American advocacy groups in the post-9/11 era, asking how they form and function within their broader community in a world marked by Islamophobia. Bias incidents against Muslim Americans reached unprecedented levels a few short years ago, and many groups responded through action—organizing on the national level to become increasingly visible, engaged, and assertive.

Emily Cury draws on more than four years of participant observation and interviews to examine how Muslim American organizations have sought to access and influence the public square and, in so doing, forge a political identity. The result is an engaging and unique study, showing that policy advocacy, both foreign and domestic, is best understood as a sphere where Muslim American identity is performed and negotiated.

Claiming Belonging offers ever-timely insight into the place of Muslims in American political life and, in the process, sheds light on one of the fastest-growing and most internally dynamic American minority groups.

Autor

Emily Cury is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Political Science at Pine Manor College.

Inhalt

Introduction: Making Muslim Constituents Visible
1. Discrimination, Advocacy, and Collective Identity
2. From Muslims in America to American Muslims
3. From the Patriot Act to the "Muslim Ban"
4. The Rise of the Muslim American Lobby
5. Domestic Advocacy: Between Contestation and Collaboration
6. Advocating for the Muslim Ummah
Conclusion: Who Speaks for American Muslims?

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.3.2021
• Zusatzinfo: 9 b&w halftones
• Verlagsort: Ithaca
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: Muslim American advocacy, Islamophobia and Anti-Muslim discrimination, Minority group politics in the United States, The Council on American-Islamic Relations, Muslim American identity
• ISBN-10: 1-5017-5360-6 / 1501753606
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5017-5360-2 / 9781501753602