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American Muslim Women - Negotiating Race, Class, and Gender within the Ummah (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,862
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American Muslim Women - Negotiating Race, Class, and Gender within the Ummah (Hardcover): Jamillah Karim

American Muslim Women - Negotiating Race, Class, and Gender within the Ummah (Hardcover)

Jamillah Karim

Series: Religion, Race, and Ethnicity

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aProvide[s] engaging insights into the lives of contemporary American Muslim women. . . . Drawing occasionally on her own experiences and deftly but lightly invoking the relevant interdisciplinary theoretical literature, [Karim] has produced a book that flows beautifully to its thoughtful conclusion.a
--Karen Isaksen Leonard, author of "Muslims in the United States: The State of Research"

African American Muslims and South Asian Muslim immigrants are two of the largest ethnic Muslim groups in the U.S. Yet there are few sites in which African Americans and South Asian immigrants come together, and South Asians are often held up as a amodel minoritya against African Americans. However, the American ummah, or American Muslim community, stands as a unique site for interethnic solidarity in a time of increased tensions between native-born Americans and immigrants.

This ethnographic study of African American and South Asian immigrant Muslims in Chicago and Atlanta explores how Islamic ideals of racial harmony and equality create hopeful possibilities in an American society that remains challenged by race and class inequalities. The volume focuses on women, who due to gender inequalities, are sometimes more likely to move outside of their ethnic Muslim spaces and interact with other Muslim ethnic groups in search of gender justice.

American Muslim Women explores the relationships and sometimes alliances between African Americans and South Asian immigrants, drawing on interviews with a diverse group of women from these two communities. Karim investigates what it means to negotiate religious sisterhood against Americaas race and class hierarchies, and how those in the AmericanMuslim community both construct and cross ethnic boundaries.

American Muslim Women reveals the ways in which multiple forms of identity frame the American Muslim experience, in some moments reinforcing ethnic boundaries, and at other times, resisting them.

General

Imprint: New York University Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: Religion, Race, and Ethnicity
Release date: December 2008
First published: December 2008
Authors: Jamillah Karim
Dimensions: 229 x 153 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 978-0-8147-4809-1
Categories: Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Non-Christian religions > Islam
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General
Books > Religion & Spirituality > Non-Christian religions > Islam
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LSN: 0-8147-4809-0
Barcode: 9780814748091

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