American Muslim Women: Negotiating Race, Class, and Gender within the Ummah (Religion, Race, and Ethnicity)

American Muslim Women: Negotiating Religious Sisterhood in the African American and South Asian Muslim Communities of Chicago and Atlanta is a groundbreaking ethnographic study that sheds light on the complex dynamics between African American and South Asian immigrant Muslim women in the United States.

Through in-depth interviews with a diverse group of women from these two communities, Karim explores how Islamic ideals of racial harmony and equality create hopeful possibilities for interethnic solidarity in an America society still grappling with race and class inequalities.

The book reveals the ways in which multiple forms of identity frame the American Muslim experience, sometimes reinforcing ethnic boundaries and at other times resisting them.

With a focus on women's experiences, Karim investigates what it means to negotiate religious sisterhood against America's race and class hierarchies, and how those in the American Muslim community both construct and cross ethnic boundaries.

This thought-provoking study offers valuable insights into the lives of contemporary American Muslim women and challenges readers to rethink their assumptions about race, religion, and gender in America.