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September 10, 2021 |
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Distinguished American Studies scholar Dr. Sylvia Chan-Malik widens the lens and puts Dalia Mogahed’s work and leadership into context. Reflecting on the 9/11 anniversary, Chan-Malik shares how the last twenty years have led to greater introspection and reflection about identity, race, gender, and ethnicity among U.S. Muslim communities. And greater public engagement in contrast to the years prior. She points out that the disproportionate attention and discourse about Muslims given their size defies the logic applied to other belief traditions and, in her opinion, offers evidence of the long history of anti-Muslim stereotypes and bias in America’s racial history.
Dr. Sylvia Chan-Malik Ph.D. Associate Professor at Rutgers University and a scholar of American studies, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Women's and Gender Studies, and Religious Studies. Her research focuses on the history of Islam in the United States, specifically the lives of U.S. Muslim women and the rise of anti-Muslim racism in 20th-21st-century America. She received her undergraduate, Master's, and Doctoral degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College. She is the author, most recently of, Being Muslim: A Cultural History of Women of Color and American Islam, from NYU Press.
Being Muslim: A Cultural History of
Women of Color and American Islam
NYU Press
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