SO CIAL SCIENCE
Muslim Cool
Culture Jamming
Race, Religion, and Hip Hop in America
Activism and the Art of Cultural Resistance
Su’ad Abdul Khabeer
Edited by Marilyn DeLaure and Moritz Fink, Foreword by Mark Dery
“Offers an account of how Muslims in Chicago feel, think, and act. Fashionistas, hiphop heads, and activists will recognize this scholarly work as chronicling the edginess of a possible future. Imagine Black Power meets twenty-first century faith-based social justice and cultural organizing. A must read for all those who didn’t know, and even those who do!” Junaid Rana, author of Terrifying Muslims: Race and Class in the South Asian Diaspora This groundbreaking study of race, religion, and popular culture in the 21st century United States focuses on a new concept, “Muslim Cool.” Muslim Cool is a way of being an American Muslim— displayed in ideas, dress, and social activism in the ’hood, and in complex relationships to state power. Constructed through hip hop and the performance of Blackness, Muslim Cool is a way of engaging with the Black American experience by both Black and non-Black young Muslims that challenges racist norms in the U.S. as well as dominant ethnic and religious structures within American Muslim communities. Drawing on over two years of ethnographic research, Su’ad Khabeer illuminates the ways in which young and multiethnic U.S. Muslims draw on Blackness to construct their identities as Muslims. By countering the notion that Blackness and the Muslim experience are fundamentally distinet, Muslim Cool poses a critical challenge to dominant ideas that Muslims are “foreign” to the United States and puts Blackness at the center of the study of American Islam. SU’AD ABDUL KHABEER is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and African American Studies at Purdue University.
DECEMBER 288 PAGES • 17 black & white illustrations PAPER • 978-1-4798-9450-5 • $30.00S (£22.99) CLOTH • 978-1-4798-7215-2 • $89.00X (£68.00) ANTHROPOLOGY • RACE AND ETHNICITY WWW.NYUPRESS.ORG
Coined in the 1980s, “culture jamming” refers to an array of tactics deployed by activists to critique, subvert, and otherwise Activism “jam” the workings of And the Art consumer culture. Ranging from media hoaxes and of culturAl advertising parodies to flash resistAnce mobs and street art, these actions seek to interrupt the flow of dominant, capitalistic messages that permeate our daily lives. Employed by Occupy Wall Street protesters and the Russian feminist punk band Pussy Riot alike, culture jamming scrambles the signal, injects the unexpected, and spurs audiences to think critically and challenge the status quo.
culture JAmminG edited by mArilyn delAure And moritz fink
With A foreWord by mArk dery
The essays, interviews, and creative work assembled in this unique volume explore the shifting contours of culture jamming by plumbing its history, mapping its transformations, testing its force, and assessing its efficacy. Revealing how culture jamming is at once playful and politically transgressive, this accessible collection explores the degree to which culture jamming has fulfilled its revolutionary aims. Featuring original essays from prominent media scholars discussing Banksy and Shepard Fairey, foundational texts such as Mark Dery’s culture jamming manifesto, and artwork by and interviews with noteworthy culture jammers including the Guerilla Girls, The Yes Men, and Reverend Billy, Culture Jamming makes a crucial contribution to our understanding of creative resistance and participatory culture. MARILYN DELAURE is an Associate Professor of Communication Studies at the University of San Francisco. MORITZ FINK is a media scholar and author. MARK DERY is a cultural critic. His latest book is the essay collection I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts.
FEBRUARY 464 PAGES • 51 black & white illustrations • 9 color illustrations PAPER • 978-1-4798-0620-1 • $30.00S (£22.99) CLOTH • 978-1-4798-7096-7 • $89.00X (£68.00) MEDIA STUDIES • AMERICAN STUDIES FA L L 2016 • NY U PRESS
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