Muslim American city : gender and religion in metro Detroit / Alisa Perkins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Perkins, Alisa, author.

Series:

NYU scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Muslims--Michigan--Detroit--Social conditions--21st century.

Muslims.

Detroit (Mich.)--Ethnic relations--History--21st century.

Detroit (Mich.).

Detroit (Mich.)--Social conditions--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (309 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, [2020]

Summary:

Drawing on years of ethnographic research in Hamtramck, which boasts one of the largest concentrations of Muslim residents of any American city, Alisa Perkins shows how the Muslim American population has grown and asserted itself in public life. She explores the efforts of Muslim American women to maintain gender norms in neighbourhoods, mosques, and schools, as well as Muslim Americans' efforts to organise public responses to municipal initiatives. Her fieldwork incorporates the perspectives of both Muslims and non-Muslims, including Polish Catholics, African American Protestants, and other city residents. Drawing particular attention to Muslim American expressions of religious and cultural identity in civil life, Perkins questions the popular assumption that the religiosity of Muslim minorities hinders their capacity for full citizenship in secular societies.

Contents:

Cover

Muslim American City

Title

Copyright

Dedication

CONTENTS

List of Maps

Introduction: Muslims in Metro Detroit

1. The Making of a Muslim American City: The Histories of African Americans, Poles, and Muslims in Hamtramck

2. Gender, Space, and Muslim American Women

3. Yemeni Women, Civic Purdah, and Private/Public Divides

4. Bangladeshi Women and Gender Boundaries

5. Prayer Calls and the Right to the City

6. LGBTQ Rights, Moral Boundaries, and Municipal Temporality

Conclusion: Urban Religion and Secular Constraints

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Author.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2020.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4798-7721-2

OCLC:

1237770748