Associate Professor
On Leave FA22 & WN23
Office Information:
3527B Haven Hall,
734-936-5858
Fields of study:
race, Blackness, Black Islam, Black women's history, popular culture
Arab and Muslim American Studies; American Culture
Education/Degree:
Ph.D., Princeton University, 2011Highlighted 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...
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