Introduction: Young American Muslim identities

Muslim World

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 473-477

  Leonard, Karen Isaksen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 60949326232     PISSN: 00274909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1478-1913.2005.00106.x     Document Type: Review

References (9)

1. Stuart Hall, "Minimal Selves," 45, in ed. Homi Bhabha, Identity (London: Institute of Contemporary Arts, 1987)
2. Gauri Viswanathan argues that religious difference now signifies primarily cultural difference for many in Western democracies: Outside the Fold: Conversion, Modernity, and Belief (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1998)
3. Hamid Naficy, "Popular Culture of Iranian Exiles in Los Angeles," in Irangeles: Iranians in Los Angeles, Ron Kelley and Jonathan Friedlander, eds. (Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1993), 360
4. See Fareed H. Nu'man, The Muslim Population in the United States (Washington D.C.: American Muslim Council, 1992), 16
5. and Ilyas Ba-Yunus and M. Moin Siddiqui, A Report on the Muslim Population in the United States (New York: CAMRI, 1999), respectively
6. For more on statistics, see Karen Isaksen Leonard, Muslims in the United States: the State of Research (New York: Russell Sage, 2003), 147 note 1
7. Early Arab organizations emphasized national origin instead of religion and this profile continues; also, South Asians have higher incomes and levels of education in the Census than Arabs and are more experienced in democratic politics: Karen Leonard, "South Asian Leadership of American Muslims," in Muslims in the West: Sojourners to Citizens, ed. Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad (New York: Oxford, 2001), 233-249
8. Recent developments include the founding of the Progressive Muslims Union, the website Muslimwakeup.com, and American Muslim women's requests for fuller participation in mosques, including leading prayers and functioning as imams. See Karen Leonard, "American Muslims and Authority: Competing Discourses in a non-Muslim State, Journal of American Ethnic History 25:1 (forthcoming fall 2005), for conflicts among political and religious leaders
9. The reverse may be true for young people in Detroit, the early and still-leading center for America Arabs of both Muslim and Christian background: Nabeel Abraham and Andrew Shryock, eds., Arab Detroit: From Margin to Mainstream (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2000)