Associate Professor; Director of the Arab and Muslim American Studies Program and Undergraduate Advisor for the minor WN19
drsuad@umich.eduOffice Information:
3527B Haven Hall
505 S. State Street
Ann Arbor MI 48109-1045
Fields of study: race, religion, popular culture
Fax: 734.936.1967
phone: 734.936.5858
Arab and Muslim American Studies
Education/Degree:
Ph.D., Princeton University, 2011
Highlighted Work and Publications
Muslim Cool: Race, Religion, and Hip Hop in the United States
Su'ad Abdul Khabeer
Interviews with young, black Muslims in Chicago explore the complexity of those with identities formed at the crossroads of Islam and hip hop
This groundbreaking study of race, religion and popular culture in the 21st century United States focuses on a new concept, “Muslim Cool.” Muslim Cool is a way of being an American Muslim—displayed in ideas, dress, social activism in the ’hood, and in complex relationships to state power. Constructed through hip hop and the performance of Blackness, Muslim Cool is a way of engaging with the Black American experience by both Black and non-Black young Muslims that challenges racist norms in the U.S. as well as dominant ethnic and religious structures within American Muslim communities.
