LEADER 00000cam a2200973Ii 4500 001 ocn895161930 003 OCoLC 005 20211008041809.0 006 m o d 007 cr cnu|||unuuu 008 141113t20142015nyu ob 001 0 eng d 016 7 016955297|2Uk 019 896853249|a987696084|a988460857 020 9781479851638|q(electronic book) 020 1479851639|q(electronic book) 020 9781479823758 020 1479823759 020 1479855340 020 9781479855346 020 1479844802 020 9781479844807 020 1479853267 020 9781479853267 020 |z9781479855346 035 (OCoLC)895161930|z(OCoLC)896853249|z(OCoLC)987696084 |z(OCoLC)988460857 037 22573/ctt1369xhq|bJSTOR 040 N$T|beng|erda|epn|cN$T|dEBLCP|dYDXCP|dOCLCO|dN$T|dCUI |dOCLCQ|dP@U|dJSTOR|dDEBSZ|dOCLCQ|dE7B|dUKMGB|dCOO|dCUS |dUAB|dMOR|dOCLCQ|dIOG|dEZ9|dUUM|dOCLCF|dJBG|dINT|dOCLCQ |dDEGRU 043 n-us---|an-us-tx 049 RIDW 050 4 E184.M88|bA36 2014 072 7 SOC|x031000|2bisacsh 072 7 SOC|x020000|2bisacsh 072 7 SOC002010|2bisacsh 072 7 REL024000|2bisacsh 082 04 305.6/97077641411|223 090 E184.M88|bA36 2014 100 1 Afzal, Ahmed,|d1969-|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names /n2014063549|eauthor. 245 10 Lone star Muslims :|btransnational lives and the South Asian experience in Texas /|cAhmed Afzal. 264 1 New York :|bNYU Press,|c[2014] 264 4 |c©2015 300 1 online resource (xi, 261 pages) 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 340 |gpolychrome|2rdacc 347 text file|2rdaft 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Houston: Race, Class, Oil, and the Making of "America's Most Diverse City" -- 2 "A Dream Come True": Shia Ismaili Experiences in Corporate America -- 3 "It's Allah's Will": The Transnational Muslim Heritage Economy -- 4 "I Have a Very Good Relationship with Allah": Pakistani Gay Men and Transnational Belonging -- 5 The Pakistan Independence Day Festival: The Making of a "Houston Tradition" -- 6 "Pakistanis Have Always Been Radio People": Transnational Media, Business Imperatives, and Homeland Politics -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- G -- G -- H -- I -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P - - Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- Y -- Z -- About the Author. 520 "Lone Star Muslims offers an engaging and insightful look at contemporary Muslim American life in Texas. It illuminates the dynamics of the Pakistani Muslim community in Houston, a city with one of the largest Muslim populations in the south and southwestern United States. Drawing on interviews and participant observation at radio stations, festivals, and ethnic businesses, the volume explores everyday Muslim lives at the intersection of race, class, profession, gender, sexuality, and religious sectarian affiliation to demonstrate the complexity of the South Asian experience. Importantly, the volume incorporates narratives of gay Muslim American men of Pakistani descent, countering the presumed heteronormativity evident in most of the social science scholarship on Muslim Americans and revealing deeply felt affiliations to Islam through ritual and practice. It also includes narratives of members of the highly skilled Shia Ismaili Muslim labor force employed in corporate America, of Pakistani ethnic entrepreneurs, the working class and the working poor employed in Pakistani ethnic businesses, of community activists, and of radio program hosts. Decentering dominant framings that flatten understandings of transnational Islam and Muslim Americans, such as 'terrorist' on the one hand, and 'model minority' on the other, Lone Star Muslims offers a glimpse into a variety of lived experiences. 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