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Author | : Nuray Karaman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Islamophobia |
ISBN | : |
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In the current climate, there is a need to give particular attention to the racialization of Muslim women in order to understand their experiences. In the U.S., there are current discriminatory policies towards Muslims, such as Trump's travel ban, increased incidents of hate against Muslims, and the spread of negative stereotypes about Muslims and Islam. In this study, I interview thirty-four Muslim female students to show the experiences of Muslim women at the intersection of multiple identities. These multiple identities: religion, gender, race, culture, citizenship status, clothing and various levels of religiosity such as wearing a headscarf, and national background shape these women's perception of the hijab, their racial identification, and their coping strategies. The following three research questions are explored: 1) How do Muslim female students experience practices of racialization, regarding the outside and inside campus environment on the University of Tennessee campus where the majority of its enrollment is self-identified as Christian? (2) How does the intersection of religion, race, ethnicity, nationality, citizenship, and gender effect the identity formation of Muslim female university students in U.S.? (3) What are Muslim female students' opinions, reactions, and coping strategies towards negative stereotypes about Muslim women and Islam in U.S.? The results demonstrate the diversity among Muslim female students in how they think and identify. Important intersecting markers such as being hijabi/non-hijabi; being a white/person of color; being an American citizen/non-American; speaking English as a native language/second language; coming from a secular country/religious country showcase differences in terms of how all women experienced racialization but in different ways. They also defined differently the meaning of the hijab and their racial identities and they selected different coping strategies to challenge the negative stereotypes of Muslims and Islam that have been on the rise in Trump's era. The findings of this study broaden the existing literature and help future studies that do not only analyze Muslim population but also other minority groups in Western or Middle Eastern countries.
Author | : Zahra Rafie |
Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-11-17 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9783031414237 |
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This ethnographic study explores the lived experiences and challenges felt by Muslim female students in higher education in the greater District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia (DMV) area. It offers narrative case studies as a form of narrative inquiry based on stories of lived experience as a means of capturing dynamic, didactic, and dialectic understandings to promote and enable needed change in higher education. In centering the voices of Muslim female students, this research goes beyond the narrow statistical representation of predefined categories to examine and present the systematic nature and roots of social prejudice.
Author | : Nastaran Abdoli |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 121 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Islamic clothing and dress |
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Download Muslims and Public Places Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This thesis investigates the experiences of first-generation and second-generation Muslim immigrants in Knoxville, Tennessee. It is based on fieldwork, participant observation, and interviews conducted from August 2017 to June 2018. The interviews were conducted with fifteen individuals, eleven women and four men who were recruited through Muslim Centers in Knoxville and the University of Tennessee campus. I argue that social pressure and the negative climate affects the way Muslims are treated in the United States in public places. Muslim immigrants in Knoxville had positive and negative experiences of being in public places. They use public places for religious holidays and festivals organized by the Muslim Community of Knoxville, small-scale events organized by several Muslim organizations, and general leisure activities. Positive experiences of using public places include socializing with others within the community, involvement in city life, and assertion of their Muslim identity as part of Knoxville. Reported negative experiences ranged from stares to verbal attacks in public. My findings showed that Muslim women wearing hijab are more at risk of having negative experiences, compared to Muslim men or Muslim women who do not wear hijab. Responses to discrimination included ignoring stares and comments, responding to them, taking extra precautions, and avoiding certain public places. However, for most of the Muslim immigrants interviewed, the negative experiences did not cause them to avoid using public places. In particular, Muslim immigrants in Knoxville prefer to spend their leisure time engaging in group activities with friends, family, and other members of their various immigrant communities using urban green spaces that are not crowded and that provide picnic areas and grassy areas for group sports.
Author | : Carol Warren Koller |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015 |
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ISBN | : |
Download The Self-Perception and Campus Experiences of Traditional Age Female Muslim American Students Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Lily A. Arasaratnam-Smith |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2022-09-30 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1000646742 |
Download Developing Intercultural Competence in Higher Education Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book presents students’ reflections on their intercultural student experiences, and utilizing the UNESCO Story Circle methodology, illustrates how such reflection can aid the development of intercultural competence (IC). The volume features a broad range of first-person narratives that showcase the diversity of student experience encountered whilst studying abroad in a variety of cultural and institutional settings. Engaging with issues in relation to identity negotiation, stereotypes, cultural difference, and communities of support, the text demonstrates application of the UNESCO Story Circle approach in developing IC. Further, vignettes are analyzed and guiding questions are offered to structure readers’ reflection and discussion to facilitate further honing of intercultural competencies. The volume promotes IC amongst individual educators, trainers, international students, and community members and provides guidance in addressing international students’ wellbeing more broadly. This text will benefit scholars, academics, and students in the fields of higher education, multicultural education, and intercultural communication. Those involved with international and comparative education as well as student affair practice and higher education administration will also benefit from this volume.
Author | : Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 2006-03-02 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0195177835 |
Download Muslim Women in America Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Muslim women living in America continue to be marginalized and misunderstood since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, yet their contributions are changing the face of Islam as it is seen both within Muslim communities in the West and by non-Muslims.
Author | : Paul James and Jack Neely |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2022 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1467107727 |
Download Downtown Knoxville Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Founded on a bluff overlooking the Tennessee River in 1791, Knoxville was a frontier town as well as the birthplace and first capital of Tennessee. From the postcolonial years through the Civil War and on to Knoxville's emergence as an industrial, dynamic, and thoroughly American city, downtown was where everything happened--the setting of the city's most memorable stories and legends. Spanning First and Second Creeks and connecting the river to the railroad, downtown is where Knoxvillians have built their most defining churches, opera houses, movie theaters, and hotels. Here, traditions, holidays, and the endings of wars have been celebrated; suffrage leaders exhorted politicians to pass a national amendment; conservationists planned a national park; idealistic engineers and architects of a New Deal program reimagined a multistate valley; and musicians convened to record and broadcast new forms of folk music that would be called "country." Downtown is where bizarre gunfights drew national attention and a notorious outlaw escaped from jail and rode the sheriff's horse to freedom across the Gay Street Bridge.
Author | : Mary Wren Bivins |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2007-03-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 031309442X |
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Through reconstruction of oral testimony, folk stories and poetry, the true history of Hausa women and their reception of Islam's vision of Muslim in Western Africa have been uncovered. Mary Wren Bivins is the first author to locate and examine the oral texts of the 19th century Hausa women and challenge the written documentation of the Sokoto Caliphate. The personal narratives and folk stories reveal the importance of illiterate, non-elite women to the history of jihad and the assimilation of normative Islam in rural Hausaland. The captivating lives of the Hausa are captured, shedding light on their ordinary existence as wives, mothers, and providers for their family on the eve of European colonial conquest.
Author | : Paul M. Barrett |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2007-12-26 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0374708304 |
Download American Islam Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Vivid, dramatic portraits of Muslims in America in the years after 9/11, as they define themselves in a religious subculture torn between moderation and extremism There are as many as six million Muslims in the United States today. Islam (together with Christianity and Judaism) is now an American faith, and the challenges Muslims face as they reconcile their intense and demanding faith with our chaotic and permissive society are recognizable to all of us. From West Virginia to northern Idaho, American Islam takes readers into Muslim homes, mosques, and private gatherings to introduce a population of striking variety. The central characters range from a charismatic black imam schooled in the militancy of the Nation of Islam to the daughter of an Indian immigrant family whose feminist views divided her father's mosque in West Virginia. Here are lives in conflict, reflecting in different ways the turmoil affecting the religion worldwide. An intricate mixture of ideologies and cultures, American Muslims include immigrants and native born, black and white converts, those who are well integrated into the larger society and those who are alienated and extreme in their political views. Even as many American Muslims succeed in material terms and enrich our society, Islam is enmeshed in controversy in the United States, as thousands of American Muslims have been investigated and interrogated in the wake of 9/11. American Islam is an intimate and vivid group portrait of American Muslims in a time of turmoil and promise.
Author | : Ibtissam Bouachrine |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 145 |
Release | : 2014-05-21 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0739179071 |
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Muslim women of all ages, economic status, educational backgrounds, sexual orientations, and from different parts of historically Muslim countries suffer the kinds of atrocities that violate common understandings of human rights and are normally denounced as criminal or pathological, yet these actions are sustained because they uphold some religious doctrine or some custom blessed by local traditions. Ironically, while instances of abuse meted out to women and even female children are routine, scholarship about Muslim women in the post 9/11 era has rarely focused attention on them, preferring to speak of women’s agency and resistance. Too few scholars are willing to tell the complicated, and at times harrowing, stories of Muslim women's lives. Women and Islam: Myths, Apologies, and the Limits of Feminist Critique radically rethinks the celebratory discourse constructed around Muslim women’s resistance. It shows instead the limits of such resistance and the restricted agency given women within Islamic societies. The book does not center on a single historical period. Rather, it is organized as a response to five questions that have been central to upholding the 'resistance discourse': What is the impact of the myth of al-Andalus on a feminist critique? What is the feminist utility of Edward Said’s theory of Orientalism? Is Islam compatible with a feminist agenda? To what extent can Islamic institutions, such as the veil, be liberating for women? Will the current Arab uprisings yield significant change for Muslim women? Through examination of these core questions, Bouachrine calls for a shift in the paradigm of discourse about feminism in the Muslim world.