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Crescent over Another Horizon: Islam in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Latino USA

2015 the University of Texas Press ;ISBN: 1477302298 ;ISBN: 9781477302293 ;EISBN: 9781477302309 ;EISBN: 1477302301 ;DOI: 10.7560/302293 ;OCLC: 918590329 ;LCCallNum: F1419.M87C74 2015

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    Crescent over Another Horizon: Islam in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Latino USA
  • Author: Logroño Narbona, Maria del Mar ; Pinto, Paulo G ; Karam, John Tofik
  • MARÍA DEL MAR LOGROÑO NARBONA ; PAULO G. PINTO ; JOHN TOFIK KARAM
  • Subjects: Caribbean Area ; Ethnic identity ; History ; Islam ; Islam-Caribbean Area ; Islam-Latin America ; Islam-United States ; Latin America ; Latin American Studies ; Muslims ; Muslims-Caribbean Area-Ethnic identity ; Muslims-Latin America-Ethnic identity ; Muslims-United States-Ethnic identity ; Religion ; United States
  • 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.
  • Publisher: Austin: University of Texas Press
  • Creation Date: 2015
  • Format: 357
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISBN: 1477302298
    ISBN: 9781477302293
    EISBN: 9781477302309
    EISBN: 1477302301
    DOI: 10.7560/302293
    OCLC: 918590329
    LCCallNum: F1419.M87C74 2015
  • Source: Ebook Central Academic Complete
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