Being Muslim A Cultural History of Women of Color in American Islam / Sylvia Chan-Malik.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chan-Malik, Sylvia, author.

Series:

NYU scholarship online.

NYU scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Muslims, Black.

African American women.

Muslim women--United States.

Muslim women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (203 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

2018 Outstanding Academic Title, given by Choice Magazine An exploration of twentieth and twenty-first century U.S. Muslim womanhood that centers the lived experience of women of color For Sylvia Chan-Malik, Muslim womanhood is constructed through everyday and embodied acts of resistance, what she calls affective insurgency. In negotiating the histories of anti-Blackness, U.S. imperialism, and women’s rights of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Being Muslim explores how U.S. Muslim women’s identities are expressions of Islam as both Black protest religion and universal faith tradition. Through archival images, cultural texts, popular media, and interviews, the author maps how communities of American Islam became sites of safety, support, spirituality, and social activism, and how women of color were central to their formation. By accounting for American Islam’s rich histories of mobilization and community, Being Muslim brings insight to the resistance that all Muslim women must engage in the post-9/11 United States. From the stories that she gathers, Chan-Malik demonstrates the diversity and similarities of Black, Arab, South Asian, Latina, and multiracial Muslim women, and how American understandings of Islam have shifted against the evolution of U.S. white nationalism over the past century. In borrowing from the lineages of Black and women-of-color feminism, Chan-Malik offers us a new vocabulary for U.S. Muslim feminism, one that is as conscious of race, gender, sexuality, and nation, as it is region and religion.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Introduction

1. “Four American Moslem Ladies”

2. Insurgent Domesticity

3. Garments for One Another

4. Chadors, Feminists, Terror

5. A Third Language

Conclusion

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-260) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4798-8155-4

OCLC:

1039718563