American Muslim women

By Jamillah Ashira Karim

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

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.