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Navigating Colour-Blind Societies: A Comparative Ethnography of Muslim Urban Life in Copenhagen and Montreal book cover

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Navigating Colour-Blind Societies A Comparative Ethnography of Muslim Urban Life in Copenhagen and Montreal

By Amani Hassani Copyright 2024
174 Pages 38 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

174 Pages 38 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

174 Pages 38 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Navigating Colour-Blind Societies is a comparative ethnography of racialisation, class, and gender in the lives of young Muslims coming of age in societies where race is deemed insignificant. The book offers insights into the urban lives of young middle-class Muslims in Copenhagen and Montreal. Based on their narratives, the book examines racialisation as (1) a social process that is classed... Read more

Introduction: Muslims in Colour-Blind Societies

Part I: Muslim Racialisation and its Affects

1. Assemblages of Muslim Racialisation

2. Middle-Class Muslim Respectability in Copenhagen

3. Gendered Islamophobia, Representation, and the Hijab in Montreal

Part II: Muslim Pathways and Spatial Narratives

4. Contesting Racialised Spaces in Copenhagen

5. Spatial Biographies and Rootedness in Montreal

6. Space, Time, and the Urban Muslim 

Conclusion: Navigating Colour-Blind Societies

Biography

Amani Hassani is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Brunel University. She is an urban ethnographer working at the intersection of sociology, anthropology, and human geography. Her research explores the connection between racialisation and spatialisation, focusing on Muslim populations in the Global North. She has written widely on racialisation, Islamophobia, and Muslim experiences in academic and public domains.

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