Veiled threat : on being visibly Muslim in Britain / Nadeine Asbali

By:

Asbali, Nadeine [Author]

Material type: Text

TextDescription: 275 pages ; 23 cmISBN:

9781785908194

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DDC classification:

305.486970941 ASB

Summary: Nadeine Asbali would be the first to say that a scarf on a woman's head doesn't define her, but in her case, that's a lie.Nadeine's life changed overnight. As a mixed-race teenager, she had unknowingly been passing as white her entire life: until she decided to wear the hijab. Then, in an instant, she went from being an unassuming white(ish) child to something sinister and threatening, perverse and foreign.Veiled Threat is a sharp and illuminating examination of what it is to be a visibly Muslim woman in modern Britain, a nation intent on forced assimilation and integration and one that views covered bodies as primitive and dangerous.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Cataloguing, Classification and Distribution	305.486970941 ASB (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		B231069
Books	Cataloguing, Classification and Distribution	305.486970941 ASB (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		B230923

Nadeine Asbali would be the first to say that a scarf on a woman's head doesn't define her, but in her case, that's a lie.Nadeine's life changed overnight. As a mixed-race teenager, she had unknowingly been passing as white her entire life: until she decided to wear the hijab. Then, in an instant, she went from being an unassuming white(ish) child to something sinister and threatening, perverse and foreign.Veiled Threat is a sharp and illuminating examination of what it is to be a visibly Muslim woman in modern Britain, a nation intent on forced assimilation and integration and one that views covered bodies as primitive and dangerous.

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Veiled threat : on being visibly Muslim in Britain / Nadeine Asbali