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Colorblind Islam: the racial hinges of immigrant muslims in the United States
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Abstract Islam is increasingly theorized as a "racialized" category in the United States, yet these accounts can too often emphasize a top-down approach of racial identification and obfuscate the importance of the African-American Muslim experience. Using Maghbouleh's (2017) concept of "racial hinges", the a... view more
Islam is increasingly theorized as a "racialized" category in the United States, yet these accounts can too often emphasize a top-down approach of racial identification and obfuscate the importance of the African-American Muslim experience. Using Maghbouleh's (2017) concept of "racial hinges", the author synthesizes previous work and provides evidence from his own ethnographic research to describe how immigrant Muslims in the United States leverage different racial "strategies of action" (Swidler, 1986), including white acculturation and black appropriation. In the conclusion, the author suggests a third strategy: brown solidarity.... view less
Keywords
ethnicity; Islam; Muslim; migration; religion; immigration; United States of America; racism
Classification
Sociology of Religion
Migration, Sociology of Migration
Social Problems
Document language
English
Publication Year
2018
Page/Pages
p. 87-97
Journal
Social Inclusion, 6 (2018) 2
Issue topic
Complex religion: intersections of religion and inequality
DOI
https://doi.org/10.17645/si.v6i2.1422
ISSN
2183-2803
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed