Facing Race: White Australian Converts to Islam

Facing Race: White Australian Converts to Islam

Author
Oishee Alam
Publisher
Melbourne University Press
Language
English
Year
2018
ISBN
0522874916,9780522874914
File Type
epub
File Size
356.3 KiB

The figure of 'the Muslim' is constructed by both Muslim and non-Muslim Australians as incongruent with whiteness, but what of white Muslim converts, who are at once highly racialised and racially invisible? Facing Race explores the lived experiences of thirty-six Australian converts to Islam, in a nation where Islam is cast in opposition to the dominant racial narrative of whiteness that informs the nation's core ideology. Drawing on in-depth interviews, author Oishee Alam provides a fascinating account of how racialisation is reproduced in everyday interpersonal encounters by white converts, with Muslims and non-Muslims alike - and what those experiences reveal to us about race, Islamophobia and whiteness in contemporary Australia.

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