Identity Formation

Cawo M. Abdi, Elusive Jannah: The Somali Diaspora and a Borderless Muslim Identity (2015)

Kristine J. Ajrouch and Abdi M. Kusow, “Racial and Religious Contexts” Situational Identities among Lebanese and Somali Muslim Immigrants”, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 30/1 (2007, pp. 72-94

Heather Akou, The Politics of Dress in Somali Culture (2011)

Helene Basu, “Music and the Formation of Sidi Identity in Western India”, History Workshop Journal, 65/1(2008), pp. 161-178

Sylvia Chan-Malik, “‘Common Cause’: On the Black-Immigrant Debate and Constructing the Muslim America”, Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Religion, 2/8 (May 2011), pp. 1-39

Edward E. Curtis IV “African-American Islamization Reconsidered: Black History Narratives and Muslim Identity”, Journal of American Academy of Religion, 73/3 (2005), pp. 659-684

Edward E. Curtis, “Islamism and Its African American Muslim Critics: Black Muslims in the Era of the Arab Cold War,” American Quarterly, 59/3 (Sept. 2007), pp. 683-709

Yunus Dumbe, “The Salafi Praxis of Constructing Religious Identity in Africa: A Comparative Perspective of the Growth of the Movements in Accra and Cape Town”, Islamic Africa, 2/2 (Winter 2011), pp. 87-116

Leena Habiballa, “Seeds of Sudanese Identity: Unsettling the Logic of Racialisation” http://www.qahwaproject.com/archive/2015/11/26/seeds-of-sudanese-identity-unsettling-the-logic-of-racialisation

Jamillah Karim, “Between Immigrant Islam and Black Liberation: Young Muslims Inherit Global Muslim and African American Legacies”, The Muslim World, 95/4 (2005), pp. 497-513

Su’ad Abdul Khabeer, “Africa as Tradition in U.S. African American Muslim Identity”, Journal of Africana Religions, 5/1 (2017), pp. 26-49

Behnaz A. Mirzai, “African Presence in Iran: Identity and Its Reconstruction in the 19th and 20th Centuries”, Revue d’Histoire Outre-Mers, 89/33-37 (2002), pp. 229-246

Kiri Rupiah, “Authentically Black, Authentically Arab-A Roundtable on Afro-Arab Identity”, Afripop! (Feb. 4, 2016) http://afripopmag.com/2016/02/04/authentically-black-authentically-arab-a-roundtable-on-afro-arab-identity/?utm_content=buffer0ed5c&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer 

Ikhlas Saleem, “There’s Nothing Regular About Being Black and Muslim in America”, Buzzfeed (June 25, 2016) https://www.buzzfeed.com/ikhlassaleem/the-hybrid?utm_term=.iaZ50p3G1#.gyyaYXAeN 

Najma Sharif, “Black, Queer, and Muslim: On Faith, Self-Care and Identity”, Nylon (March 14, 2017) http://www.nylon.com/articles/black-queer-muslim-self-care-faith-identity

Richard Brent Turner, “What Shall We Call Him: Islam and African-American Identity”, Journal of Religious Thought, 51/1 (1995), pp. 1-28.

Sharifa M. Zawawi, African Muslim Names: Images and Identities (1998)