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CMENAS Colloquium Series. Halal Metropolis: New Strategies for Urban Renewal in Detroit

Sally Howell, Associate Professor of History, University of Michigan-Dearborn
Monday, September 19, 2016
12:00-1:00 PM
Room 1636 School of Social Work Building Map
Urban spaces are sites of contest between strangers, especially those who encounter each other across lines of difference defined by religious identity and migration. In Detroit today, the fastest growing populations of immigrants are Muslim (African, Arab, Eastern European, and South Asian). They are filling in and reshaping the city itself, most notably in neighborhoods adjoining Dearborn, Hamtramck, and Highland Park, where ethnic and halal marketplaces are springing up around mosques, revitalizing local housing markets, and transforming the educational landscape. Similar developments are visible in the outer suburbs as well, where newer migrants from Yemen, Syria, and Iraq encounter older Arab and Muslim migrations. These encounters can be portrayed as a source of social creativity and political dynamism, or alternatively as generators of new ethnoracial, class, and religious tensions. This talk will mine my ongoing research for insights about how local Muslim and other understandings of space intersect and transform one another.

Sally Howell is director of the Center for Arab American Studies and associate professor of history at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. Her recent books include Arab Detroit 9/11: Life in the Terror Decade (2011, Wayne State University Press), and Old Islam in Detroit: Rediscovering the Muslim American Past (2014, Oxford University Press). Howell is also active in public cultural work that explores the intersection of Arab and Muslim diasporas in Detroit via documentary video, cultural and historical exhibitions, art installations, and community-based research. She is curator of the Building Islam in Detroit website.

For CMENAS students only
1:30-2 pm — CMENAS students workshop/discussion with the lecturer/professor.
Building: School of Social Work Building
Event Type: Meeting
Tags: Detroit, International, Middle East Studies, Migration
Source: Happening @ Michigan from Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, International Institute