SU’AD KHABEER, “MUSLIM COOL” (NOW RESCHEDULED)

(RESCHEDULED TIME BELOW)

Su’ad Khabeer, Asst. Prof. Anthropology, Purdue University, presents:

“MUSLIM COOL: RACE, RELIGION AND HIP HOP IN THE UNITED STATES”

Public Lecture, Mon., April 24, 2017, Cone 113, 12:30-2:00. Everyone welcome!  Lunchtime pIzza provided.

Su’ad Abdul Khabeer is a scholar-artist-activist who uses anthropology and perference to explore the intersections of race and popular culture. Her latest work, Muslim Cool: Race, Religion and Hip Hop in the United States (NYU Press 2016), is an ethnography on Islam and hip hop that examines how intersecting ideas of Muslimness and Blackness challenge and reconstitute US racial orders. Su’ad’s written work on Islam and hip hop is also accompanied by her performance ethnography

Su’ad appears as part of our series on “Being Muslim in America” – for a listing of events, see the series flyer here.

Cosponsored by a Chancellor’s Diversity Grant and CLAS Speakers’ Fund