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Su’ad Abdul Khabeer’s “Muslim Cool”: Engaging Blackness through Islam and Hip Hop

Su’ad Abdul Khabeer’s “Muslim Cool”: Engaging Blackness through Islam and Hip Hop

Anthropologist Su’ad Abdul Khabeer’s Muslim Cool is an examination of how young Muslims in the U.S., both Black and non-Black, construct their identities and ideas through Black cultural production.

Jun 11, 2017
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