Episode 9 | Muslim Cool: Race, Religion, and Hip Hop in the United States with Su’ad Abdul Khabeer

Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the studio by professor, Su'ad Abdul Khabeer  

Author of Muslim Cool: Race, Religion, and Hip Hop in the United States (New York University Press, 2016), which Marc Lamont Hill describes as, “a desperately needed intervention within Anthropology, Africana Studies, and Islamic Studies” that “brilliantly spotlights how Black Muslim youth construct and perform identities that embody indigenous forms of Black cultural production.” Khabeer is an Associate Professor of American Culture and Arab and Muslim American Studies and future director of the Arab and Muslim American Studies Program at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is also the creator of Sampled: Beats of Muslim Life. Sampled, a one-woman solo performance designed to present and represent her research and findings to diverse audiences as part of her commitment to public scholarship. (Source: