Facing Race

White Australian Converts to Islam

Oishee Alam
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Facing Race

Published

14 December 2018

ISBN

9780522874921

Pages

224

Imprint

MUP Academic

Facing Race

White Australian Converts to Islam

Oishee Alam
The figure of 'the Muslim' is constructed by both Muslim and non-Muslim Australians as incongruent with whiteness, but what of white Muslim converts, who are at once highly racialised and racially invisible? Facing Race explores the lived experiences of thirty-six Australian converts to Islam, in a nation where Islam is cast in opposition to the dominant racial narrative of whiteness that informs the nation's core ideology. Drawing on in-depth interviews, author Oishee Alam provides a fascinating account of how racialisation is reproduced in everyday interpersonal encounters by white converts, with Muslims and non-Muslims alike - and what those experiences reveal to us about race, Islamophobia and whiteness in contemporary Australia.

Islamic Studies Series - Volume 26
The figure of 'the Muslim' is constructed by both Muslim and non-Muslim Australians as incongruent with whiteness, but what of white Muslim converts, who are at once highly racialised and racially invisible? Facing Race explores the lived experiences of thirty-six Australian converts to Islam, in a nation where Islam is cast in opposition to the dominant racial narrative of whiteness that informs the nation's core ideology. Drawing on in-depth interviews, author Oishee Alam provides a fascinating account of how racialisation is reproduced in everyday interpersonal encounters by white converts, with Muslims and non-Muslims alike - and what those experiences reveal to us about race, Islamophobia and whiteness in contemporary Australia.

Islamic Studies Series - Volume 26

Oishee Alam

Oishee Alam

Oishee Alam is a sociologist of race and ethnic studies. She works as a Research Fellow at Western Sydney University, where she completed her PhD in 2016. Her research and teaching areas include race and racism, whiteness, nationalism, Islamophobia and bystander anti-racism.

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