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Alternative performativity of Muslimness : the intersection of race, gender, religion, and migration / Amina Alrasheed Nayel.
Author
Nayel, Amina Alrasheed
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
©2017
Description
xvii, 242 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
HQ1170 .N39 2017
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Muslim women
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England
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West Yorkshire
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Social conditions
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Muslims, Black
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England
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West Yorkshire
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Social conditions
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Sudanese
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England
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West Yorkshire
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Social conditions
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Muslims
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Cultural assimilation
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England
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West Yorkshire
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Immigrants
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Cultural assimilation
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England
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West Yorkshire
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Black people
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Race identity
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England
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West Yorkshire
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Summary note
The book highlights issues related to the construction of gender in Africa and African identity politics. It explores the limitations of the constructed category of "African Muslim woman" in West Yorkshire. Amina Alrasheed Nayel uses Black feminist epistemology along with postcolonial, feminist, and critical race theory to examine the multiple identities that Sudanese women negotiate in the UK. The diverse settings of Islam and Islamic culture, circumscribed around issues of performativity of Islam and identity construction in the diasporic space are unpacked in this volume. In addition, this work analyzes specific practices and performances, starting with the multifaceted nature of Islam and the problematic concepts of "Sunni/Sufi," "Muslim woman," "race," and "blackness." The book reveals that exile, nostalgia, and racial/ethnic differences within Islam and the wider UK community underpin the performativity of Muslimness of the Sudanese women living in West Yorkshire, and reiterates the importance of moving beyond the homogeneity of the idea of "Muslim woman" towards investigating the complexities of this group.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-223) and index.
Contents
Research area problem and methodology
Sudanese women and the intersection of identity and Islam in historical and contemporary perspective
Reflections on contested identities: investigating the narratives of northern Sudanese Muslim women in west Yorkshire
Missing the Nile: melancholic nostalgia and making home
Conclusion: the politics of difference, performativity, identities and belonging.
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ISBN
9783319440507 ((hbk. ; : acid-free paper))
3319440500 ((hbk. ; : acid-free paper))
LCCN
2017930192
OCLC
953223106
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