TY  - BOOK
AU  - Karim,Jamillah
TI  - American Muslim Women: Negotiating Race, Class, and Gender within the Ummah 
T2  - Religion, Race, and Ethnicity
SN  - 9780814748091
AV  - E184.M88 K37 2009eb
U1  - 305.6/97 22
PY  - 2008///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - New York University Press, 
KW  - African American women
KW  - Religious life
KW  - Muslim women
KW  - United States
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Muslims
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Sex role
KW  - Social classes
KW  - South Asian American women
KW  - Women immigrants
KW  - RELIGION / Islam / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - African
KW  - American
KW  - Asian
KW  - Atlanta
KW  - Chicago
KW  - Islamic
KW  - South
KW  - This
KW  - challenged
KW  - class
KW  - create
KW  - equality
KW  - ethnographic
KW  - explores
KW  - harmony
KW  - hopeful
KW  - ideals
KW  - immigrant
KW  - inequalities
KW  - possibilities
KW  - race
KW  - racial
KW  - remains
KW  - society
KW  - study
KW  - that
N1  - restricted access
N2  - 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. 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 America's race and class hierarchies, and how those in the American Muslim 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
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814749111
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780814749111/original
ER  -