REL 16.03 Islam in America

This course is about Muslims in America, past, present, and future—how American Islam is an extension of global Islam and how it is uniquely American. As we study religious identity and understandings of Islam in enslaved Muslim narratives, the civil rights movement, waves of immigration, pre- and post- 9/11, current Muslim geopolitics, we pay close attention to theorizations of contested histories, race, gender, and class dynamics, intersectionality, model minorityhood, assimilation, discrimination. We will also study Malcolm X’s visit to Dartmouth, and the significance of the Malcolm X murals in Dartmouth's Shabazz Center.

Cross Listed Courses

AAAS 22.50 REL 026

Degree Requirement Attributes

Dist:TMV; WCult:W

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