CSRPC & CSGS's Civil Islam Initiative present Dr. Farid Hafez,
Department of Oriental Studies, University of Vienna. "From Harlem to Hoamatlond: Hip Hop, Malcolm X and Islamic Activism in Austria," discusses the influence of Hip Hop youth culture on Austrian Muslim youth who established the social movement organisation Islamische Gruppe Oberösterreich out of which the most influential Muslim Youth Movement emerged in the 1990s. It is asked, how these Muslim youth constituted their identity in the 1990s within the frame of Hip Hop youth culture and Malcolm X (who inspired those youth) in respect to their emerging Islamic Activism. The research asks, what role the figure Malcolm X played in respect to the emerging Islamic Activism and by that how different belongings (black resistance, Muslims in the US, membership in Austrian societies) exist next to each other. The merging of religion and youth culture is interpreted as a construction of an alternative youth culture which represents the fight for recognition in the social sphere.
Date: February 25, 2013
Time: 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Date: February 25, 2013
Time: 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
