American Muslim Women : Negotiating Race, Class, and Gender within the Ummah /

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 "model minority" against African Americans...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Karim, Jamillah (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : New York University Press, [2008]
Colección:Religion, Race, and Ethnicity ; 10
Temas:
African American women > Religious life.
Muslim women > Social conditions > United States.
Muslim women > United States > Social conditions.
Muslims > Case studies > Social conditions > United States.
Muslims > United States > Social conditions > Case studies.
Sex role > Case studies > United States.
Sex role > United States > Case studies.
Social classes > Case studies > United States.
Social classes > United States > Case studies.
South Asian American women > Religious life.
Women immigrants > Social conditions > United States.
Women immigrants > United States > Social conditions.
RELIGION / Islam / General.
African.
American.
Asian.
Atlanta.
Chicago.
Islamic.
Muslims.
South.
This.
challenged.
class.
create.
equality.
ethnographic.
explores.
harmony.
hopeful.
ideals.
immigrant.
inequalities.
possibilities.
race.
racial.
remains.
society.
study.
that.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. African American and Immigrant Relations: Between Inequality and Global Flows
  • 2. Race, Class, and Residence in the Chicago Ummah: Ethnic Muslim Spaces and American Muslim Discourses
  • 3. Across Ethnic Boundaries: Women's Movement and Resistance in the Chicago Ummah
  • 4. Negotiating an American Muslim Identity after September 11: Second-Generation Muslim Women in Chicago
  • 5. Negotiating Gender Lines: Women's Movement across Atlanta Mosques
  • 6. Negotiating Sisterhood, Gender, and Generation: Friendship between Second-Generation South Asian American and African American Muslim Women
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Glossary
  • Index
  • About the Author

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