Muslim Cool Chapter 3 Facilitation Questions
1. Why do various American Hip Hop artists often claim that they are from the "hood" or the "ghetto"? How does this contribute to their social identity or social front?
2. What does Latifah's situation tell us about the intersection of racial identities between US Black American culture and US Muslim culture? How do these two cultures come together and sometimes contrast with one another?
3. Why is US Black American culture emulated so often in many other cultures? Would you consider this to be "cultural appropriation"?
4. Why do you suppose the author named the chapter "Blackness as a Blueprint for the Muslim Self"? How does this relate to the theme of the book overall?
5. Do you see other cultures or communities adopting US Black American Culture? If so in what ways? Can this adoption of culture cause the dying out of other more traditional cultures in the world?
2. What does Latifah's situation tell us about the intersection of racial identities between US Black American culture and US Muslim culture? How do these two cultures come together and sometimes contrast with one another?
3. Why is US Black American culture emulated so often in many other cultures? Would you consider this to be "cultural appropriation"?
4. Why do you suppose the author named the chapter "Blackness as a Blueprint for the Muslim Self"? How does this relate to the theme of the book overall?
5. Do you see other cultures or communities adopting US Black American Culture? If so in what ways? Can this adoption of culture cause the dying out of other more traditional cultures in the world?
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