ISS 26 Facing Race: White Australian Converts to Islam

By Oishee Alam

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 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0522874924
• ISBN13: 9780522874921
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Mup Academic
• Length: 226 Pages
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 8.2"