Navigating Colour-Blind Societies

ISBN-13: 9781032279268 / Twarda / 2024 / 192 str.

UK) Hassani Amani (Brunel University

Opis

This book is a comparative ethnography of racialisation, class, and gender in the lives of young Muslims coming of age in societies, where race is deemed insignificant.

Spis treści

Introduction: Muslims in Colour-Blind Societies; Part I: Muslim Racialisation and its Affects; 1. Assemblages of Muslim racialisation; 2. Middle-Class Muslim Respectability in Copenhagen; 3. Gendered Islamophobia, Representation and The Hijab in Montreal; Part II: Muslim Pathways and Spatial Narratives; 4. Contesting Racialised Spaces in Copenhagen; 5. Spatial  Biographies and rootedness in Montreal; 6. Space, Time, and the Urban Muslim; Conclusion: Navigating Colour-Blind Societies

O autorze

Amani Hassani is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Brunel University. She is an urban ethnographer working at the intersection of sociology, anthropology, and human geography. Her research explores the connection between racialisation and spatialisation, focusing on Muslim populations in the Global North. She has written widely on racialisation, Islamophobia and Muslim experience in academic and public domains.