TY - BOOK AU - Karim,Jamillah Ashira TI - American Muslim women: negotiating race, class, and gender within the ummah T2 - Religion, race, and ethnicity series SN - 9780814748091 (alk. paper) AV - E184.M88 K37 2009 U1 - 305.6/97 22 PY - 2009/// CY - New York PB - New York University Press KW - Muslim women KW - United States KW - Social conditions KW - Women immigrants KW - African American women KW - Religious life KW - South Asian American women KW - Muslims KW - Case studies KW - Social classes KW - Sex role KW - Chicago (Ill.) KW - Race relations KW - Atlanta (Ga.) N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-280) and index; African American and immigrant relations: between inequality and global flows -- Race, class, and residence in the Chicago ummah: ethnic Muslim spaces and American Muslim discourses -- Across ethnic boundaries: women's movement and resistance in the Chicago ummah -- Negotiating an American Muslim identity after September 11: second-generation Muslim women in Chicago -- Negotiating gender lines: women's movement across Atlanta mosques -- Negotiating sisterhood, gender, and generation: friendship between second-generation South Asian American and African American Muslim women N2 - "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 ER -