Muslim Cool : Race, Religion, and Hip Hop in the United States / / Su'ad Abdul Khabeer

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910148571503321
• Autore: Khabeer Su'ad Abdul
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• ISBN: 1-4798-2989-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (215 pages)
• Disciplina: 305.896/073
• Soggetti: African Americans - Race identity; African Americans - Relations with Muslims; Muslims - United States - Social conditions; African American Muslims - Social conditions; Hip-hop - Social aspects - United States; Electronic books.; United States Race relations History 21st century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Loop of Muslim Cool -- 2. Policing Music and the Facts of Blackness -- 3. Blackness as a Blueprint for the Muslim Self -- 4. Cool Muslim Dandies -- 5. The Limits of Muslim Cool -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Discography -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author
• Sommario/riassunto: Interviews with young, black Muslims in Chicago explore the complexity of 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 young Muslims that challenges racist norms in the U.S. as well as dominant ethnic and religious structures within American Muslim communities. Drawing on over two ; years of ethnographic research, Su'ad Abdul Khabeer illuminates the ways in which young and multiethnic U.S. Muslims draw on Blackness to construct their identities as Muslims. This is a form of critical Muslim self-making that builds on interconnections and intersections, rather than divisions between “Black” and “Muslim.” Thus, by countering the notion that Blackness and the Muslim experience are fundamentally different, Muslim Cool poses a critical challenge to dominant ideas that Muslims are “foreign” to the United States and puts Blackness at the center of the study of American Islam. Yet Muslim Cool also demonstrates that connections to Blackness made through hip hop are critical and contested—critical because they push back against the pervasive phenomenon of anti-Blackness and contested because questions of race, class, gender, and nationality continue to complicate self-making in the United States.

Big-box swindle : the true cost of mega-retailers and the fight for America's independent businesses / / Stacy Mitchell

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910968286503321
• Autore: Mitchell Stacy
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Boston, : Beacon Press, c2006
• ISBN: 1-4356-0424-5; 0-8070-3499-1
• Descrizione fisica: xviii, 318 p
• Disciplina: 381/.120973
• Soggetti: Chain stores - United States; Retail trade - United States; Small business - United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 260-298) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Chain store world -- Fading prosperity -- Community life -- Blighted landscape -- Sometimes low prices -- Monopolized consumers -- Uncle Sam's invisible hand -- Communities unchained -- Declaration of independents.
• Sommario/riassunto: In less than two decades, large retail chains have become the most powerful corporations in America. In this deft and revealing book, Stacy Mitchell illustrates how mega-retailers are fueling many of our most pressing problems, from the shrinking middle class to rising pollution and diminished civic engagement--and she shows how a growing number of communities and independent businesses are effectively fighting back. Mitchell traces the dramatic growth of mega-retailers--from big boxes like Wal-Mart, Home Depot, Costco, and Staples to chains like Starbucks, Olive Garden, Blockbuster, and Old Navy--and the precipitous decline of independent businesses. Drawing on examples from virtually every state in the country, she unearths the extraordinary impact of these companies and the big-box mentality on everything from soaring gasoline consumption to rising poverty rates, failing family farms, and declining voting levels. Along the way, Mitchell exposes the shocking role government policy has played in the expansion of mega-retailers and builds a compelling case that communities composed of many small, locally owned businesses are healthier and more prosperous than those dominated by a few large chains. More than a critique, Big-Box Swindle provides an invigorating account of how some communities have successfully countered the spread of big boxes and rebuilt their local economies. Since 2000, more than two hundred big-box development projects have been halted by groups of ordinary citizens, and scores of towns and cities have adopted laws that favor small-scale, local business development and limit the proliferation of chains. From cutting-edge land-use policies to innovativecooperative small-business initiatives, Mitchell offers communities concrete strategies that can stave off mega-retailers and create a more prosperous and sustainable future. "What Nickel and Dimed did for the Wal-Mart worker, Mitchell does for the community threatened by mega-retailers." --Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature "Through rich, real-life stories, Stacy Mitchell reveals that those 'low prices' so proudly promoted by big-box behemoths come at an intolerably high cost to our communities and culture. Can we beat the behemoths? Yes! And Mitchell shows us the way. Read on, take heart, and take action!" --Jim Hightower, national radio commentator, writer, public speaker, and best-selling author "Stacy Mitchell provides an astonishing expose of the broad-reaching implications of our shopping habits. Big-Box Swindle should be required reading for everyone who cares about America's main streets, as well as a call to arms for small businesses everywhere to organize and take action." --Kennedy Smith, former director of the National Trust for Historic Preservation's National Main Street Center "A well-researched and frightening book about an economic pandemic engulfing the United States . . . The big boxes are draining cities and towns of money and bankrupting neighborhood businesses that have long been the backbone of American communities. Big-Box Swindle is a book every citizen needs to read." --Ben H. Bagdikian, author of The New Media Monopoly "A great read! The big-box shadow looms over us mightily, but, as Stacy Mitchell documents, hundreds of communities have already saved themselves. She tells us how they did it and firmly invites us tostep forward into the light. Change-a-lujah!" --Reverend Billy, leader of the Church of Stop Shopping "Mitchell's new book, Big-Box Swindle, is a devastating critique of the social impact of big retailers on American life." --Guardian, interview in December 6th issue "In the muckraking tradition of "Fast Food Nation" and "Nickel and Dimed," this is a searing indictment of the impact of behemoth retailers (Wal-Mart, Costco, Best Buy, et al.) on this country, its landscape and small towns, as well as the global marketplace. An ; independent business activist from Ma

Identity and identification in India : defining the disadvantaged / / Laura Dudley Jenkins

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910971456203321
• Autore: Dudley-Jenkins Laura
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York, : RoutledgeCurzon, 2003
• ISBN: 1-280-07496-5; 0-203-40193-X; 0-415-29680-3
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 266 p. : ill
• Disciplina: 305.5/122/0954
• Soggetti: Social classes - India; Caste - India; Group identity - India
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-255) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Identity and identification -- CATEGORIES AND IDENTITIES -- POLICIES OF IDENTIFICATION -- COLONIAL AND POSTCOLONIAL STATE-SOCIETY INTERACTIONS -- THE CATEGORIES -- RESERVATION POLICIES IN INDIA -- OVERVIEW OF CHAPTERS -- Part I: State simplifications -- Part II: Political complications -- Part I State simplifications -- 2 Adjudicating identities -- A "SPURIOUS" TRIBE? -- INTERCASTE MARRIAGE -- CONVERSION -- CONCLUSION -- 3 Official anthropology -- ANTHROPOLOGY, COLONIALISM AND THE STATE -- RISLEY'S PEOPLE OF INDIA -- Classification -- Administration -- Politicization -- THE NEW PEOPLE OF INDIA PROJECT -- Classification -- Administration -- Politicization -- NATIONALISM AND THE PEOPLE OF INDIA -- CONCLUSION -- 4 Caste certificates and lists -- IDENTIFYING AND LABELING BENEFICIARIES: A TANGLE OF ADVANTAGE AND OPPRESSION -- COMPLICATING PARAMETERS: MIGRATION, MARRIAGE, ADOPTION AND RELIGIOUS (RE)CONVERSION -- Migration ; -- Marriage and adoption -- Conversion and reconversion -- INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP PROCESSES: MAKING THE LIST -- CONCLUSION -- 5 Categorizing and counting on the census -- CRITICS OF THE COLONIAL CENSUS -- A RENEWED EMPHASIS ON CASTE -- CLASSIFYING: A CASTE BY ANY OTHER NAME¼ -- COUNTING: THE POWER OF NUMBERS -- SHIFTING IDENTITIES -- CONCLUSION -- Part II Political complications -- 6 "Backward" Muslims and "Scheduled Caste" Christians -- MUSLIM DEMANDS FOR BACKWARD STATUS -- CHRISTIAN DEMANDS FOR SCHEDULED CASTE STATUS -- CONCLUSION -- 7 Hindu nationalism and selective inclusion -- ABSORBING MINORITIES: EXPANSIVE DEFINITIONS OF HINDUISM -- EXCLUSIVE INCLUSION: SETTING BOUNDARIES TO HINDUISM AND CASTE -- THE BOUNDARIES OF THE NATION: MUSLIMS AND CHRISTIANS AS OUTSIDERS -- THE IMPACT OF HINDU NATIONALISM ON MUSLIM AND CHRISTIAN DEMANDS FOR RESERVATIONS.; THE WEB OF IDENTITIES AND THE MODERATION OF HINDU NATIONALISM -- CONCLUSION -- 8 Class, classification and creamy layers -- THE MANDAL COMMISSION REPORT ON OTHER BACKWARD CLASSES -- ANTI-MANDAL ACTIVISM -- THE CREAMY LAYER RULING AND THE NATIONAL COMMISSION FOR BACKWARD CLASSES -- DEFINING THE CREAMY LAYER: THE PRASAD COMMITTEE -- RESISTANCE TO CREAMY LAYER RULES -- CONCLUSION -- 9 Women's reservations and representation -- GENDER IDENTITIES AND INTERESTS -- MINOR MINORITIES: WOMEN'S RESERVATIONS IN COLONIAL LEGISLATURES -- COMMUNITIES AND CATEGORIES: RENEWED DEBATE OVER WOMEN'S RESERVATIONS -- ELECTED BODIES: WOMEN'S RESERVATIONS IN THE 1990s -- CONCLUSIONS -- 10 Conclusions -- STATE SIMPLIFICATIONS AND POLITICAL COMPLICATIONS: A THEORETICAL SYNTHESIS -- POLICY IMPLICATIONS -- CONCLUSION -- Appendices -- APPENDIX I: GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS -- (a) Application form for Scheduled Caste certificate -- (b) Form of certificate to be produced by a candidate belonging to a Scheduled Caste or Scheduled Tribe in support of his claim (Department of Personnel 1993:396) -- (c) Application for a certificate of eligibility for reservation of jobs for Other Backward Classes in civil posts and services under Government of Delhi -- (d) Form of certificate to be produced by Other Backward Classes applying for appointment to posts under the Government of India (Department of Personnel 1993:487) -- (e) Questionnaire for consideration of requests for inclusion and complaints of under-inclusion in the central list of Other Backward Classes -- PART I General Descriptive Data of the State -- PART II General Data of the Caste/Community Under Consideration -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: Can a state empower its citizens by classifying them? Or do reservation policies reinforce the very categories they are meant to eradicate? Indian reservation policies on government jobs, legislative seats and university admissions for disadvantaged groups, like affirmative action policies elsewhere, are based on the premise that recognizing group distinctions in society is necessary to subvert these distinctions. Yet the official identification of eligible groups has unintended side-effects on identity politics. Bridging theories which emphasize the fluidity of identities and those which highlight the utility of group-based mobilizations and policies, this book exposes didactic enforcement of categorizations, while recognizing the social and political gains facilitated by group-based strategies.