American Muslim women
Subtitle: negotiating race, class, and gender within the Ummah
By: Jamillah Karim.
Series: Religion, race, and ethnicity series
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780814748091; 9780814748107
Subjects: Muslim women -- United States -- Social conditions; Women immigrants -- United States -- Social conditions; African American women -- Religious life; South Asian American women -- Religious life; Muslims -- United States -- Social conditions -- Case studies; Social classes -- United States -- Case studies; Sex role -- United States -- Case studies; Chicago (Ill.) -- Race relations; Atlanta (Ga.) -- Race relations; United States -- Race relations -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies.
Description: "Focusing on women, who sometimes move outside of their ethnic Muslim spaced and interact with other Muslim ethnic groups in search of gender justice, this ethnographic study of African American and South Asian immigrant Muslims in Chicago and Atlanta explores how Islamic ideas of racial harmony amd equality create hopeful possibilities in an American society that remains challenged by race and class inequalities."--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.