American Muslim women

By Jamillah Ashira Karim

Subjects: Muslim women, Muslims, united states, Case studies, Religious life, African American women, Social classes, united states, Sex role, Social classes, Women immigrants, Muslims, Social conditions, African american women, United states, race relations, Women, united states, social conditions, Race relations, South Asian American women

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.