Islamic Art and Cultural Activism in the United States with Dustin Craun E17

Dustin Craun is a Muslim cultural activist, founder of the Center for Global Muslim Life and co-founder of MPower Change. As a leader in these organizations, Dustin has been developing community art projects, public memory initiatives, and monument campaigns, which celebrate the often underappreciated role of Muslims in the civic life of the United States. He often strives for multiethnic collaboration and has worked closely with migrants and undocumented youth at the US Mexico border and indigenous communities in the Pacific Northwest. His projects show Muslims as part of a rich, vibrant, multiethnic community enlivening cultural life within the United States.

Learn more about Dustin’s work here:

GlobalMuslimLife.com

BeyondBordersArts.Com

 

In our conversation, Dustin mentions the following books and articles:

Return of the Mecca: The Art of Islam and Hip-Hop” by Sohail Daulatzai.

Muslim Cool: Race, Religion, and Hip Hop in the United States” by Su’ad Abdul Khabeer.

Islam and the Cultural Imperative” Dr. Umar Faruq Abd-Allah

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Memorialize The Movement: Preserving Art From the George Floyd Uprising with Leesa Kelly and Amira McLendon. E02.

Colin interviews Leesa Kelly and Amira McLendon of Memorialize the Movement about their experiences as Black activists working to preserve art from the 2020 uprising in Minneapolis. Kelly and McLendon offer insight into the racial politics of art preservation.

Links and References:

Memorialize the Movement: https://www.memorializethemovement.com/

Art and Artifact: Murals from the Minneapolis Uprising: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517918989/art-and-artifact/

Preservation for the People Podcast: https://blackartconservators.com/podcast/

Monument Lab’s National Monument Audit: https://monumentlab.com/audit

Jenn M. Jackson: “The Militancy of (Black) Memory: Theorizing Black-Led Movements as Disjunctures in the Normativity of White Ignorance.” https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-9825933

 

Cover Photo by Ted Timmons, Edited by Colin McLaughlin-Alcock

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