Facing Race by Alam & Oishee

Facing Race by Alam & Oishee Description

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 nations core ideology. Drawing on in-depth interviews author Oishee Alam provides a fascinatin