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The book highlights issues related to the construction of gender in Africa and African identity politics. It reflects on the race and gender based 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 book unpacks the diverse settings of Islam and Islamic culture, circumscribed around issues of performativity of Islam and identity construction in the diasporic space. It 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 volume 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. The book reiterates the importance of moving beyond the homogeneity of the idea of "Muslim woman" towards investigating the complexities of this group. §

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social groups

• Full title: Alternative Performativity of Muslimness
• Subtitle: The Intersection of Race, Gender, Religion, and Migration
• Author: Amina Alrasheed Nayel
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 242
• EAN: 9783319440507
• ISBN: 3319440500
• ID: 13513385
• Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG
• Weight: 4401 g
• Dimensions: 210 × 148 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 07. February 2017

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