04315nam 22006735 450 991047993040332120210713025335.01-4798-5888-91-4798-5163-910.18574/9781479851638(CKB)3800000000006952(EBL)1840315(SSID)ssj0001368334(PQKBManifestationID)11787221(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001368334(PQKBWorkID)11447896(PQKB)10701229(StDuBDS)EDZ0001326140(MiAaPQ)EBC1840315(OCoLC)895161930(MdBmJHUP)muse37389(DE-B1597)548269(DE-B1597)9781479851638(EXLCZ)99380000000000695220200723h20142014 fg 0engurcn#---|||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierLone Star Muslims Transnational Lives and the South Asian Experience in Texas /Ahmed AfzalNew York, NY :New York University Press,[2014]©20141 online resourceDescription based upon print version of record.1-4798-4480-2 1-4798-5534-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Acknowledgments --Introduction --1. Houston --2. “A Dream Come True” --3. “It’s Allah’s Will” --4. “I Have a Very Good Relationship with Allah” --5. The Pakistan Independence Day Festival --6. “Pakistanis Have Always Been Radio People” --Conclusion --Notes --Bibliography --Index --About the AuthorLone Star Muslims offers an engaging and insightful look at contemporary Muslim American life in Texas. It illuminates the dynamics of the Pakistani Muslim community in Houston, a city with one of the largest Muslim populations in the south and southwestern United States. Drawing on interviews and participant observation at radio stations, festivals, and ethnic businesses, the volume explores everyday Muslim lives at the intersection of race, class, profession, gender, sexuality, and religious sectarian affiliation to demonstrate the complexity of the South Asian experience. Importantly, the volume incorporates narratives of gay Muslim American men of Pakistani descent, countering the presumed heteronormativity evident in most of the social science scholarship on Muslim Americans and revealing deeply felt affiliations to Islam through ritual and practice. It also includes narratives of members of the highly skilled Shia Ismaili Muslim labor force employed in corporate America, of Pakistani ethnic entrepreneurs, the working class and the working poor employed in Pakistani ethnic businesses, of community activists, and of radio program hosts. Decentering dominant framings that flatten understandings of transnational Islam and Muslim Americans, such as “terrorist” on the one hand, and “model minority” on the other, Lone Star Muslims offers a glimpse into a variety of lived experiences. It shows how specificities of class, Islamic sectarian affiliation, citizenship status, gender, and sexuality shape transnational identities and mediate racism, marginalities, and abjection.HomosexualityReligious aspectsIslamCase studiesPakistani AmericansTexasHoustonEthnic identityCase studiesPakistani AmericansTexasHoustonSocial conditions21st centuryMuslims in popular cultureUnited StatesCase studiesMuslimsUnited StatesSocial conditions21st centuryCase studiesHouston (Tex.)Ethnic relationsCase studiesHomosexualityReligious aspectsIslamPakistani AmericansEthnic identityPakistani AmericansSocial conditionsMuslims in popular cultureMuslimsSocial conditions305.697077641411Afzal Ahmedauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1042746DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910479930403321Lone Star Muslims2467215UNINA