CURRENTS: Sabah Uddin (Bowie State University)
Humanities Work Now
Wednesday, November 16, 2022 · 12 - 1 PM
The Dresher Center’s CURRENTS: Humanities Work Now lunchtime series showcases exciting new faculty work in the humanities in a dynamic and inter-disciplinary setting.
Lunch will be served at 11:30am.
Responding to Islamophobia: British Muslims ‘Talk Back’ to the UK
Sabah Uddin, Assistant Professor, Language, Literature, and Cultural Studies, Bowie State University; Inclusion Imperative Visiting Faculty Fellow
This study explores how second and third generation Muslims in Britain resist calls to become “normal” good Muslims and instead seek to unapologetically assert their particularized racial and religious difference through cultural expressions of dissatisfaction. Sabah Uddin will analyze forms of British Muslim cultural production, including visual art, fashion, music, and poetry including a focus on forms particularly expressed on digital platforms. She looks at how these forms of sub-cultural expression function as sites of contestation, where Muslim minorities reframe their experiences, challenge dominant messages about their group identity, problematize the essentialism of Muslims, and construct a counter-public specific to Muslims in Britain.
Sabah Uddin, Assistant Professor, Language, Literature, and Cultural Studies, Bowie State University; Inclusion Imperative Visiting Faculty Fellow
This study explores how second and third generation Muslims in Britain resist calls to become “normal” good Muslims and instead seek to unapologetically assert their particularized racial and religious difference through cultural expressions of dissatisfaction. Sabah Uddin will analyze forms of British Muslim cultural production, including visual art, fashion, music, and poetry including a focus on forms particularly expressed on digital platforms. She looks at how these forms of sub-cultural expression function as sites of contestation, where Muslim minorities reframe their experiences, challenge dominant messages about their group identity, problematize the essentialism of Muslims, and construct a counter-public specific to Muslims in Britain.
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