Citizenship, Identity and the Politics of Multiculturalism

This book provides a fresh perspective on the emergence of public Muslim identities, traversing issues of Muslim-state engagement across government initiatives and church-state relations, across equalities agendas and the education system, the courts and the media.

Autorentext
NASAR MEER is Lecturer in Social and Political Sciences, University of Southampton, UK. He was previously a Visiting Fellow with the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Studies, Harvard University, USA. He has recently been part of a country cross national inquiry into citizenship with the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship (Bristol, UK).

Zusammenfassung
This book provides a fresh perspective on the emergence of public Muslim identities, traversing issues of Muslim-state engagement across government initiatives and church-state relations, across equalities agendas and the education system, the courts and the media.

Inhalt
Preface by Tariq Modood: The Struggle for Recognition Introduction Framing Citizenship Du Bois and Consciousness Conceptualising Muslim-Consciousness: From Race to Religion Local and Global Muslim Identities Muslim Schools in Britain: Muslim-Consciousness in Action Muslims and Discrimination: Muslim-Consciousness in Re-action? Muslims in Public and Media Discourse Towards a Synthesised Muslim-Consciousness Bibliography