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  -