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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Innovative and ambitious, this book will undoubtedly become a key reference when debating the issue of anti-Muslim racism. Offering a range of analysis—linking anti-Muslim racism to the global phenomenon of imperialism—With Stones in Our Hands is a crucial work in the building of a true decolonial theory."—Houria Bouteldja, author of Whites, Jews, and Us: Toward a Politics of Revolutionary Love
"A timely updating of critical interventions and debates—of stone throwing in the best of anticolonizing traditions—from, about, and in conversation with the ‘Muslim Left,’ the ‘Muslim International.’ In the spirit of Third World studies, this is a crucial contribution for our times, a necessary read for all."—David Theo Goldberg, University of California Humanities Research Institute
"With Stones in our Hands offers theoretical application to historical and contemporary examples of anti-Muslim racisms, primarily in the US. Like any edited volume, the quality and character of the essays vary, but as a whole, this is a solid and distinctive collection well deserving of a wide readership." —Reading Religion
"Daulatzai and Rana have put together a very strong collection of essays that accomplishes their purpose of giving voice to the Muslim Left and Muslim International while also providing interesting and insightful diversity." —Marginalia Review of Books
Table of ContentsWriting the Muslim Left: An Introduction to Throwing Stones
Sohail Daulatzai and Junaid Rana
I. Imperial Racism
1. A Palestinian Exception to the First Amendment? The Pain and Pleasure of Palestine in the Public Sphere
Steven Salaita
2. The Perils of American Muslim Politics
Abdullah Al-Arian and Hafsa Kanjwal
3. Duplicity and Fear: Toward a Race and Class Critique of Islamophobia
Stephen Sheehi
4. Palestinian Resistance and the Indivisibility of Justice
Rabab Ibrahim Abdulhadi
5. “From Here to Our Homelands”: An Interview with Lara Kiswani on Radical Organizing and Internationalism in the Post-9/11 Era
Sohail Daulatzai
II. Decolonizing Geographies
6. Oppressed Majority: Violence and Muslim Communities in Multicultural Europe
Fatima El-Tayeb
7. Atlanta, Civil Rights, and Blackamerican Islam
Abbas Barzegar
8. Like 1979 All Over Again: Resisting Left Liberalism among Iranian Émigrés
Arash Davari
9. The Only Good Muslim Is a Loyal, Exotic, or Dead Muslim, or All of the Above
Vivek Bald
10. Charlie, National Unity, and Colonial-Subjects
Selim Nadi
11. “Nuts and Bolts Organizing, They Work Everywhere:” An Interview with Fahd Ahmed on Mass-Based Organizing and the National Security State
Junaid Rana
III. Technologies of Surveillance and Control
12. “A Catastrophically Damaged Gene Pool”: Law, White Supremacy, and the Muslim Psyche
Sherene H. Razack
13. Death by Double-Tap: (Undoing) Racial Logics in the Age of Drone Warfare
Ronak Kapadia
14. The Cry for Human Rights: Violence, Transition, and the Egyptian Revolution
Nadine Naber and Atef Said
15. Learning in the Shadow of the War on Terror: Toward a Pedagogy of Muslim Indignation
Arshad Imtiaz Ali
16. How Stereotypes Persist Despite Innovations in Media Representations
Evelyn Alsultany
17. “Grounded on the Battlefront”: An Interview with Hamid Khan on the Police State in the War on Terror
Sohail Daulatzai
IV. Possible Futures: Dissent and the Protest Tradition
18. To Be a (Young) Black Muslim Woman Intellectual
Su‘ad Abdul Khabeer
19. Letter from a West Bank Refugee Camp
Robin D.G. Kelley
20. Sami Al-Arian and Silencing Palestine
Hatem Bazian
21. Raising Muslim Girls: Women-of-Color Legacies in U.S. American Islam
Sylvia Chan-Malik
22. The Audience Is Still Present: Invocations of El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz by Muslims in the United States
Maryam Kashani
23. “Make a Way out of No Way:” An Interview with Ustadh Ubaydullah Evans on the Islamic Tradition and Social Justice Activism
Junaid Rana
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Index
