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Latino and Muslim in America examines how so-called ""minority groups"" are made, fragmented, and struggle for recognition. The U.S. is poised to become the first nation whose collective minorities outnumber the dominant population, and Latinos play no small role in this world-changing demographic shift. Even as many people view Latinos and Muslims as growing threats, Latino Muslims celebrate their intersecting identities in their daily lives and in their mediated representations.In this book, Harold D. Morales follows the lives of several Latino Muslim leaders from the 1970's to the present, tracing their efforts to organize and unify nationally in order to solidify the new identity group's place within the public sphere. Drawing on four years of media analysis, ethnographic and historical research, Morales demonstrates that Latinos embrace Islam within historically specific contexts that include distinctive immigration patterns and new laws, urban spaces, and media technologies that have increasingly brought Latinos and Muslims into contact. He positions this growing community as part of the mass exodus out of the Catholic Church, the growth of Islam, and the digitization of religion. Latino and Muslim in America explores the interactions between religion, race, and media to conclude that these three categories are inextricably entwined.

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Latino and Muslim in America provides us with an innovative and important lens to interrogate the hyper-racialization of religious affiliation in American society. Morales's treatment of Latino Muslims disrupts flat assumptions that too often align religion and race. This book also demonstrates how advanced media technologies constitute a productive means for minoritized communities to embrace diverse and dynamic identities. It's a must-read for all students of American religion. --Jonathan Walton, Professor of Religion and Society, Harvard University Latino and Muslim in America fills a significant void in the study of Islam in America. Morales has done the subfield a tremendous service by providing a nuanced, yet highly readable, study of how discourses of race, religion, and citizenship are experienced and mediated by Muslims of Latin-American ancestry in the United States. --Kambiz GhaneaBassiri, author of A History of Islam in America: From the New World to the New World Order Morales' book is fundamentally about American religion and the ways believers transform and are transformed by competing forms of history, identity intersectionality, media, politics, and faith. This is a first-rate work demonstrating the rich and complex phenomenon of Latinx Islam and its refusal to comply with stereotyping, binary interpretations, or monoptic, simplistic explanations for the place of Islam in the United States. Latino and Muslim in America is impressive and essential reading. --Rudy V. Busto, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, University of California Santa Barbara

"""Latino and Muslim in America by Harold Morales is a strong example of how to present the experiences of American Muslims in a meaningful context... Morales' book is a welcome addition to the study of Muslims in the US. It is theoretically rich and grounded in the experiences of Latine Muslims. He integrates a wide variety of perspectives and weaves many narrative threads together. The text is written in an approachable way and could easily be used in undergraduate courses."" -- Hussein Rashid, Inedpendent Scholar, American Religion ""Overall... I strongly recommend Morales' work for scholars, graduate students, and upper level undergraduate stuednts who possess an interest in the fields of American religious history and ethnic or race studies."" -- Jacob Hicks, Grand Canyon University, Nova Religio ""The book also serves as a reference for the study of analogous non-conventional religious groups which must assert their position within the pluralistic US-American society or other countries ... unquestionable descriptive and analytical merits"" -- Frank Usarski, International Journal of Latin American Religions ""Having worked with, learned from, and researched Latino Muslims since 2012, I am pleased with Morales's addition to the fine work done by various scholars in the past This type of book has been in need for years, and it is a welcome supplement to the diversifying field of American religious studies.""--Ken Chitwood, Reading Religion ""Latino and Muslim in America provides us with an innovative and important lens to interrogate the hyper-racialization of religious affiliation in American society. Morales's treatment of Latino Muslims disrupts flat assumptions that too often align religion and race. This book also demonstrates how advanced media technologies constitute a productive means for minoritized communities to embrace diverse and dynamic identities. It's a must-read for all students of American religion.""--Jonathan Walton, Professor of Religion and Society, Harvard University ""Latino and Muslim in America fills a significant void in the study of Islam in America. Morales has done the subfield a tremendous service by providing a nuanced, yet highly readable, study of how discourses of race, religion, and citizenship are experienced and mediated by Muslims of Latin-American ancestry in the United States.""--Kambiz GhaneaBassiri, author of A History of Islam in America: From the New World to the New World Order ""Morales' book is fundamentally about American religion and the ways believers transform and are transformed by competing forms of history, identity intersectionality, media, politics, and faith. This is a first-rate work demonstrating the rich and complex phenomenon of Latinx Islam and its refusal to comply with stereotyping, binary interpretations, or monoptic, simplistic explanations for the place of Islam in the United States. Latino and Muslim in America is impressive and essential reading.""--Rudy V. Busto, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, University of California Santa Barbara"

Having worked with, learned from, and researched Latino Muslims since 2012, I am pleased with Morales's addition to the fine work done by various scholars in the past... This type of book has been in need for years, and it is a welcome supplement to the diversifying field of American religious studies. * Ken Chitwood, Reading Religion *

Latino and Muslim in America provides us with an innovative and important lens to interrogate the hyper-racialization of religious affiliation in American society. Morales's treatment of Latino Muslims disrupts flat assumptions that too often align religion and race. This book also demonstrates how advanced media technologies constitute a productive means for minoritized communities to embrace diverse and dynamic identities. It's a must-read for all students of American religion. --Jonathan Walton, Professor of Religion and Society, Harvard University Latino and Muslim in America fills a significant void in the study of Islam in America. Morales has done the subfield a tremendous service by providing a nuanced, yet highly readable, study of how discourses of race, religion, and citizenship are experienced and mediated by Muslims of Latin-American ancestry in the United States. --Kambiz GhaneaBassiri, author of A History of Islam in America: From the New World to the New World Order Morales' book is fundamentally about American religion and the ways believers transform and are transformed by competing forms of history, identity intersectionality, media, politics, and faith. This is a first-rate work demonstrating the rich and complex phenomenon of Latinx Islam and its refusal to comply with stereotyping, binary interpretations, or monoptic, simplistic explanations for the place of Islam in the United States. Latino and Muslim in America is impressive and essential reading. --Rudy V. Busto, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, University of California Santa Barbara

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Harold D. Morales is Assistant Professor of Religion at Morgan State University.

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