ISBN:
9781479877218
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (ix, 297 pages)
,
maps (black and white).
Series Statement:
NYU scholarship online
DDC:
305.6970977434
Keywords:
Muslim
;
Muslims Social conditions 21st century
;
Detroit, Mich.
;
Detroit (Mich Social conditions 21st century
;
Detroit (Mich Ethnic relations 21st century
;
History
Abstract:
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.
Note:
Previously issued in print: 2020
,
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.18574/nyu/9781479828012.001.0001
URL:
https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479828012.001.0001
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781479877218
URL:
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