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Assistant Professor of Religion, Race, and Ethnicity
B.A., Rutgers University
M.A.,
New School for Social Research
Ph.D.,
New School for Social Research
Current
Research
Dr. Abdullah primarily works on identity formation and how the intersection of religious, racial, and ethnic processes influences its construction. His research interests include such areas as Islam in America, African Diaspora studies, ethnography, globalization and transnationalism, international migration, urbanism, gender and sexuality, material culture, film and visual anthropology. He is working on a book about West African immigrants and how they incorporate themselves into the urban landscape by negotiating the boundaries of their Muslim, Black, and African identities. |
Selected Publications
Black Mecca: The African Muslims of Harlem. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009 [forthcoming].
“Sufis on Parade: The Performance of Black, African and Muslim Identities,” 2009, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, June 77(2): 1-39.
“West African ‘Soul Brothers’ in Harlem: Immigration, Islam, and the Black Encounter, “ in Black Routes to Islam edited by Manning Marable and Hishaam D. Aidi. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
“African ‘Soul Brothers’ in the ‘Hood: Immigration, Islam, and the Black Encounter,” 2009, Anthropological Quarterly, Winter 82(1): 37-62.
“Negotiating Identities: A History of Islamization in Black West Africa,” 2008, Journal of Islamic Law and Culture, 10(1): 5-18.
“West Africa,” Encyclopedia of American Immigration, James Ciment (ed.). Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2001, pp. 1070-1078.
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