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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Karim, Jamillah,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2008]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Religion, Race, and Ethnicity ; 10
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

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,...

Table of Contents

• 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