Chapter 12 Double-Edged Marginality and Agency: Latina Conversion to Islam

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: Latino America in the Umma/ the Umma in Latino America 1
5. Part I Reconsidering History
6. Chapter 1 “De los Prohibidos”: Mu slims and Moriscos in Colonial Spanish America 25
7. Chapter 2 African Rebellion and Refuge on the Edge of Empire 46
8. Chapter 3 Ethnic and Religious Identification among Muslim East Indians in Suriname (1898–1954) 63
9. Part II Contemporary Cartographies
10. Chapter 4 Institutionalizing Islam in Argentina: Comparing Community and Identity Configurations 85
11. Chapter 5 Conversion, Revivalism, and Tradition: The Religious Dynamics of Mu slim Communities in Brazil 107
12. Chapter 6 Guests of Islam: Conversion and the Institutionalization of Islam in Mexico 144
13. Chapter 7 Cubans Searching for a New Faith in a New Context 190
14. Chapter 8 Muslims in Martinique 206
15. Chapter 9 Forming Islamic Religious Identity among Trinidadians in the Age of Social Networks 225
16. Part III Islam Latina/o
17. Chapter 10 Discovering a Historical Consciousness: The Creation of a US Latina/o Muslim Identity 255
18. Chapter 11 Mapping Mu slim Communities in “Hispanicized” South Florida 276
19. Chapter 12 Double-Edged Marginality and Agency: Latina Conversion to Islam 304
20. Conclusion 325
21. Contributors 331
22. Index 337