With Stones in Our Hands: Writings on Muslims, Racism, and Empire
By (Author) Sohail Daulatzai
Edited by Junaid Rana
University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press
1st July 2018
United States
General
Non Fiction
Social discrimination and social justice
Ethnic groups and multicultural studies
Colonialism and imperialism
Politics and government
305.69709051
Paperback
416
Width 152mm, Height 229mm, Spine 51mm
With Stones in Our Handscompiles writings by scholars and activists who are leading the struggle to understand and combat antiMuslim racism. Through a bold call for a politics of the Muslim Left and the poetics of the Muslim International, this book offers a glimpse into the possibilities of social justice, decolonial struggle, and political solidarity.
"Innovative and ambitious, this book will undoubtedly become a key reference when debating the issue of anti-Muslim racism. Offering a range of analysislinking anti-Muslim racism to the global phenomenon of imperialismWith 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 debatesof stone throwing in the best of anticolonizing traditionsfrom, 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
Sohail Daulatzai is associate professor of film and media studies and African American studies at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of Black Star, Crescent Moon: The Muslim International and Black Freedom beyond America (Minnesota, 2012).
Junaid Rana is associate professor of Asian American studies at the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign. He is the author of Terrifying Muslims: Race and Labor in the South Asian Diaspora.