{"product_id":"9780522874921","title":"Facing Race","description":"Author: Oishee Alam\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780522874921\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Melbourne University Publishing\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 14 Dec 2018\u003cbr\u003ePages: 224\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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? \u003ci\u003eFacing\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e Race\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\n Islamic Studies Series - Volume 26","brand":"Print on demand - Ships in 1 to 3 months","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47322113081502,"sku":"HPC-9780522874921","price":52.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9780522874921.jpg?v=1780446580","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9780522874921","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}