Latino and Muslim in America examines how so called "minority groups" are made, fragmented, and struggle for recognition in the U.S.A. Harold Morales follows the lives of several Latino Muslim leaders from the 1970's to the present, and their efforts to organize and unify nationally in order to solidify the new identity group's place within the public sphere. This book explores the racialization of religion, the framing of religious conversion experiences,the dissemination of post-colonial histories, and the development of Latino Muslim networks, to show that the categories of race, religion, and media are becoming inextricably entwined.

• Acknowledgments


• Introduction.


• The Experience and Mediation of Race-Religion


• Chapter 1.


• The First Wave: From Islam in Spain to the Alianza in New York


• Chapter 2.


• The Second Wave: Spanish Dawah to Women, Online and in Los Angeles


• Chapter 3.


• Reversion Stories: The Form, Content, and Dissemination of a Logic of Return


• Chapter 4.


• The 9/11 Factor: Latino Muslims in the News


• Chapter 5.


• Radicals: Latino Muslim Hip Hop and the "Clash of Civilizations Thing"


• Chapter 6.


• The Third Wave: Consolidations, Reconfigurations and the 2016 News Cycle


• Conclusion

Harold D. Morales is Assistant Professor of Religion at Morgan State University.