Facing race : white Australian converts to Islam / Oishee Alam.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alam, Oishee, author.

Series:

MUP Islamic studies series ; 26.

Islamic studies series ; 26

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Muslim converts--Australia--Social conditions.

Muslim converts.

Race awareness--Australia.

Race awareness.

White people--Race identity--Australia.

White people.

Islamophobia--Australia.

Islamophobia.

White people--Race identity.

Social conditions.

Australia.

Physical Description:

212 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Carlton, VIC : Melbourne University Press, 2018.

Summary:

The figure of 'the Muslim' is constructed by both Muslim and non-Muslim Australians as incongruent with whiteness, but what of the experience of white Muslim converts, who shift from a 'raceless' white racial positioning to one that is highly racialised? Facing Race explores the lived experiences of thirty-six white Australian converts to Islam, in a national context where Islam is cast in opposition to the white Australian nation. Expanding on previous sociological literature that deals with macro-level racialisation of Muslims through institutions, legislation and policy, social structures and national discourses, author Oishee Alam details how racialisation is reproduced and experienced in everyday interpersonal encounters by white converts, with Muslims and non-Muslims alike.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-206) and index.

ISBN:

9780522874921

0522874924

9780522874914

0522874916

9780522874938

0522874932

OCLC:

1059124516