Being Muslim : a cultural history of women of color in American Islam /

Chan-Malik, Sylvia,

Being Muslim : a cultural history of women of color in American Islam / Sylvia Chan-Malik. - New York : New York University Press, (c)2018. - 1 online resource.

Includes bibliographies and index.

"Four american moslem ladies": early U.S. Muslim women in the Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam, 1920-1923 -- Insurgent domesticity: race and gender in representations of NOI Muslim women during the Cold War era -- Garments for one another: Islam and marriage in the lives of Betty Shabazz and Dakota Staton -- Chadors, feminists, terror: constructing a U.S. American discourse of the veil -- A third language: Muslim feminism in Smerica -- Conclusion: Soul Flower Farm.



9781479881550


Muslim women--United States.
African American women.
Muslims, Black.


Electronic Books.

HQ1170 / .B456 2018