35 research outputs found
Singing in My Soul: Black Gospel Music in a Secular Age; The Holy Profane: Religion in Black Popular Music
Biblical intertextuality devices in African American rap texts (based on the Kendrick Lamarâs album âDamnâ)
A Road Map to Success for Public-Private Partnerships of Public Infrastructure Initiatives
âDeplorable Exegesisâ: Dick Gregory's Irreverent Scriptural Authority in the 1960s and 1970s
Hip Hop Matters: Race, Space, and Islam in Chicago
In this article I examine pious Muslim placemaking against the backdrop of race and class tensions in the United States. I contend that ideologies of antiâBlackness converge with pious Muslim space and placemaking practices to create a moralized division of space for Chicago Muslims. Specifically, I look at the ways that pious Muslim placemaking in Chicago suburbs by Muslim immigrant parents is entangled in elisions of race and class in the US. I show that whereas a generation of Muslim parents pursued a pious Muslim life in proximity to a White, middleâclass, American dream, groups of young Muslim activists are making Muslim space and place through Blackness in the âhood. I argue that young Muslim activists embrace hip hopâs remaking of space and place to remap the pious geographies of Muslims in Chicago and challenge conceptions of pious Muslim identity that are inflected with antiâBlackness. I demonstrate how these young Muslims find value in Blackness, as an ethic of social justice and an exemplar of Muslim piety, to contest hegemonic isomorphisms of race, space, place, and morality. Thus, I argue that by reclaiming and remaking space and place, young Muslims oppose antiâBlack racism found within broader US society as well as within the entrenched divisions of pious Muslim space in Chicago.Peer Reviewedhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/145583/1/ciso12144.pdfhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/145583/2/ciso12144_am.pd