Lone Star Muslims: Transnational Lives and the South Asian

Lone Star Muslims: Transnational Lives and the South Asian Experience in Texas

Lone Star MuslimsÂ offers an engaging and insightful look at contemporary Muslim American life in Texas. It illuminates the dynamics of the Pakistani Muslim community in Houston, a city with one of the largest Muslim populations in the south and southwestern United States.Â

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Drawing on interviews and participant observation at radio stations, festivals, and ethnic businesses, the volume explores everyday Muslim lives at the intersection of race, class, profession, gender, sexuality, and religious sectarian affiliation to demonstrate the complexity of the South Asian experience.Â

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Importantly, the volume incorporates narratives of gay Muslim American men of Pakistani descent, countering the presumed heteronormativity evident in most of the social science scholarship on Muslim Americans and revealing deeply felt affiliations to Islam through ritual and practice. It also includes narratives of members of the highly skilled Shia Ismaili Muslim labor force employed in corporate America, of Pakistani ethnic entrepreneurs, the working class and the working poor employed in Pakistani ethnic businesses, of community activists, and of radio program hosts. Â Â

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Decentering dominant framings that flatten understandings of transnational Islam and Muslim Americans, such as â‚¬Å“terroristâ‚¬Â on the one hand, and â‚¬Å“model minorityâ‚¬Â on the other,Â Lone Star MuslimsÂ offers a glimpse into a variety of lived experiences. It shows how specificities of class, Islamic sectarian affiliation, citizenship status, gender, and sexuality shape transnational identities and mediate racism, marginalities, and abjection.
Country USA
Manufacturer NYU Press
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2014-12-12
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	NYU Press
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2014-12-12
Format	Kindle eBook

Lone Star Muslims: Transnational Lives and the South Asian Experience in Texas

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