LEADER 04361nam 22006855 450 001 9910796472503321 005 20210713025335.0 010 $a1-4798-5888-9 010 $a1-4798-5163-9 024 7 $a10.18574/9781479851638 035 $a(CKB)3800000000006952 035 $a(EBL)1840315 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001368334 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11787221 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001368334 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11447896 035 $a(PQKB)10701229 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001326140 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1840315 035 $a(OCoLC)895161930 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse37389 035 $a(DE-B1597)548269 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781479851638 035 $a(EXLCZ)993800000000006952 100 $a20200723h20142014 fg 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn#---||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aLone Star Muslims $eTransnational Lives and the South Asian Experience in Texas /$fAhmed Afzal 210 1$aNew York, NY :$cNew York University Press,$d[2014] 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a1-4798-4480-2 311 0 $a1-4798-5534-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$t1. Houston --$t2. ?A Dream Come True? --$t3. ?It?s Allah?s Will? --$t4. ?I Have a Very Good Relationship with Allah? --$t5. The Pakistan Independence Day Festival --$t6. ?Pakistanis Have Always Been Radio People? --$tConclusion --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex --$tAbout the Author 330 $aLone 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. 606 $aHomosexuality$xReligious aspects$xIslam$vCase studies 606 $aPakistani Americans$zTexas$zHouston$xEthnic identity$vCase studies 606 $aPakistani Americans$zTexas$zHouston$xSocial conditions$y21st century 606 $aMuslims in popular culture$zUnited States$vCase studies 606 $aMuslims$zUnited States$xSocial conditions$y21st century$vCase studies 607 $aHouston (Tex.)$xEthnic relations$vCase studies 615 0$aHomosexuality$xReligious aspects$xIslam 615 0$aPakistani Americans$xEthnic identity 615 0$aPakistani Americans$xSocial conditions 615 0$aMuslims in popular culture 615 0$aMuslims$xSocial conditions 676 $a305.697077641411 686 $aREL024000$aSOC002010$2bisacsh 700 $aAfzal$b Ahmed$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01517279 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910796472503321 996 $aLone Star Muslims$93754239 997 $aUNINA