UID:
almahu_9949597161002882
Format:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9781479846559 (ebook) :
Series Statement:
NYU scholarship online
Content:
The future of US democracy depends on the question of whether Muslim Americans can become full social and political citizens. Though many Muslims have worked toward full assimilation since the 1950s, it has mattered little whether they have expressed dissent or supported the political status quo. Their efforts to assimilate have been futile because the liberal terms under which they have negotiated their citizenship have simultaneously alienated Muslims from the body politic. Focusing on both electoral and grassroots Muslim political participation, this text reveals Muslim challenges to and accommodation of liberalism from the Cold War to the war on terror. It shows how the Nation of Islam both resisted and made use of postwar liberalism, and then how Malcolm X sought a political alternative in his Islamic ethics of liberation.
Note:
Previously issued in print: 2019.
Additional Edition:
Print version : ISBN 9781479875009
Language:
English
URL:
NYU scholarship online
