| Crescent Over Another Horizon: Islam in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Latino USA Contributor(s): Logroņo Narbona, Maria del Mar (Editor), Pinto, Paulo G. (Editor), Karam, John Tofik (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1477312188 ISBN-13: 9781477312186 Publisher: University of Texas Press OUR PRICE: $34.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Latin America - General - Religion | Islam - History |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6" W x 9" (1.16 lbs) 356 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America - Religious Orientation - Islamic |
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| Publisher Description: Muslims have been shaping the Americas and the Caribbean for more than five hundred years, yet this interplay is frequently overlooked or misconstrued. Brimming with revelations that synthesize area and ethnic studies, Crescent over Another Horizon presents a portrait of Islam's unity as it evolved through plural formulations of identity, power, and belonging. Offering a Latino American perspective on a wider Islamic world, the editors overturn the conventional perception of Muslim communities in the New World, arguing that their characterization as "minorities" obscures the interplay of ethnicity and religion that continues to foster transnational ties. Bringing together studies of Iberian colonists, enslaved Africans, indentured South Asians, migrant Arabs, and Latino and Latin American converts, the volume captures the power-laden processes at work in religious conversion or resistance. Throughout each analysis--spanning times of inquisition, conquest, repressive nationalism, and anti-terror security protocols--the authors offer innovative frameworks to probe the ways in which racialized Islam has facilitated the building of new national identities while fostering a double-edged marginalization. The subjects of the essays transition from imperialism (with studies of morisco converts to Christianity, West African slave uprisings, and Muslim and Hindu South Asian indentured laborers in Dutch Suriname) to the contemporary Muslim presence in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and Trinidad, completed by a timely examination of the United States, including Muslim communities in "Hispanicized" South Florida and the agency of Latina conversion. The result is a fresh perspective that opens new horizons for a vibrant range of fields. |
Contributor Bio(s): Karam, John Tofik: - John Tofik Karam is an associate professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of the award-winning book Another Arabesque: Syrian-Lebanese Ethnicity in Neoliberal Brazil.Pinto, Paulo G.: - Paulo G. Pinto is a professor of anthropology at the Universidade Federal Fluminense, where he also directs the Center for Middle East Studies. His previous books include Ethnographies of Islam: Ritual Performances and Everyday Practices.Logrono Narbona Maria del Mar: - Maria del Mar Logroņo Narbona is an assistant professor of Modern Middle Eastern History at Florida International University. |