• Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Black Muslim Refugee: Militarism, Policing, and Somali American Resistance to State Violence

Black Muslim Refugee: Militarism, Policing, and Somali American Resistance to State Violence

Paperback

Black American StudiesGeneral SociologyImmigration & Refugees

ISBN10: 0520356322
ISBN13: 9780520356320
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: Jun 3 2025
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
This multisited project, the first of its kind, exposes the links between US military violence abroad and police brutality at home through a profound exploration of Somali refugee lives. Black Muslim Refugee traces the globe-spanning journeys of these refugees, from civil war-era Somalia to the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya to their eventual arrival in San Diego, and Maxamed Abumaye analyzes their experiences through the dual lenses of anti-Blackness and Islamophobia. He situates their displacement within the larger context of East Africa's colonial history, as well as the policy consequences of the American-backed war on terror and war on drugs. Throughout, Abumaye's centering of Somali subjectivity underlines this community's critical and creative capacity to defy the mechanisms that seek to manage and ultimately control them.

1 different editions

Also available

Also from

Abumaye, Maxamed

Also in

General Sociology