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Assistant Professor of Religion, Race, and Ethnicity
B.A., Rutgers University
M.A., New School University
Ph.D., New School University
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. |
Select Publications
Black Mecca: The African Muslims of Harlem . New York: Oxford University Press, (Forthcoming, 2007).
“Negotiating Identities: The Incorporation of West African Muslims in New York City,” The Journal of Islamic Law and Culture, 10.1, Spring/Summer (2005): 1-33.
“West Africa,” Encyclopedia of American Immigration , James Ciment (ed.). Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2001.
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