Episode 19 | Sylvia Chan-Malik on A Cultural History of Women of Color and American Islam

Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the studio by professor Sylvia Chan-Malik

Author of Being Muslim: A Cultural History of Women of Color and American Islam  (New York University Press, 2018), which Zareena Grewal describes as a “ fascinating cultural history of Islam in the United States will surprise readers with its insights and subtleties of argument. By centering the lives, labor, and perspectives of US American Muslim women, and Black Muslim women in particular, Chan-Malik makes a powerful case for conceptualizing Islam in the US in terms of its foundational blackness and the religious opposition to racism and sexism.“