{"product_id":"borzcua-muslims-ken-chitwood-9781477332443","title":"Borícua Muslims: Everyday Cosmopolitanism Among Puerto Rican Converts to Islam","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe stories and struggles of Puerto Rican Muslims in modern day America. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Among Puerto Rican converts to Islam, marginalization is a fact of daily life. Their \"authenticity\" is questioned by other Muslims and by fellow Borícua on the island and in the United States. At the same time, they exist under the shadow of US colonization and as Muslims in the context of American empire. To be a Puerto Rican Muslim, then, is to negotiate identity at numerous intersections of diversity and difference. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Drawing on years of ethnographic research and more than a hundred interviews conducted in Puerto Rico, New York, Florida, Texas, New Jersey, and online, Ken Chitwood tells the story of Puerto Rican Muslims as they construct a shared sense of peoplehood through everyday practices. \u003ci\u003eBorícua Muslims\u003c\/i\u003e thus provides a study of cosmopolitanism not as a political ideal but as a mundane social reality--a reality that complicates scholarly and public conversations about race, ethnicity, and religion in the Americas. Expanding the geography of global Islam and recasting the relationship between religion and Puerto Rican culture, \u003ci\u003eBorícua Muslims\u003c\/i\u003e is an insightful reckoning with the manifold entanglements of identity amid late-modern globalization. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ken Chitwood\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1477332448\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781477332443\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Texas Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/07\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs","brand":"Ken Chitwood","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47039739920639,"sku":"9781477332443","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d5ad9e03-e4ae-4820-9869-47ae626f1011.jpg?v=1752752418","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/borzcua-muslims-ken-chitwood-9781477332443","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}