Purity, soul food, and Sunni Islam: explorations at the intersection of consumption and resistance

Rouse, Carolyn Moxley; Hoskins, Janet

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Purity, soul food, and Sunni Islam: explorations at the intersection of consumption and resistance

Cultural anthropology • 19 (2) • Published In 2004 • Pages: 226-249

By: Rouse, Carolyn Moxley, Hoskins, Janet.

Abstract
This article discusses the food taboos of African American sunni muslims. It focuses on structural and semiotic entanglements of food and African American social history during three different periods: before Black Muslim leader Elijah Muhammed's death in 1975, during the rise of the African American Sunni movement 1975-2001, and after the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center. In analyzing these entanglements, the authors argue that physical acts such as eating can give a cultural form to the principles governing objective orders of power relations.

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