...Minoo Moallem Abstract This article focuses on anti-Muslim racism as a discourse that collapses race and religion and cannot be reduced to phobia. It is instead about a racial project of accumulation based on European superiority and how cultural racism upholds the European civilizational project...

... that determine their choices. Moreover, foregrounding continuing conflicts between communal groups in South Asia, I draw attention to the ways in which nationality, sexuality, and religion influenced women's choices during the chaos of 1947.Further, I explore how the violence of Partition of British India...

...Kyrah Malika Daniels Abstract Few conversations with the renowned Haitian novelist Edwidge Danticat have delved into the subject of religion in Haiti and the representations of Vodou in her fiction and nonfiction writing. This interview with Danticat explores her religious upbringing, Vodou...

... these stereotypes is insufficient for inclusion. Muslim Americans are often required to construct central aspects of their identities—particularly religion, gender, and sexuality—so they become acceptable to mainstream American sensibilities, thus becoming “good” Muslims. This essay theorizes an alternative...

... the flexibility of religion as it moves through cultures and spaces of resistance, black Muslim women successfully reconcile hotep and hip-hop. ANAYA MCMURRAY Hotep and Hip-Hop CanBlackMuslimWomenBeDownwith Hip-Hop1? Abstract "BlackMuslimwomenandhip-hop realMuslimsdon't listento hip-hop."Formany...

... of nation, class, race, gender, and religion in two very different national contexts, Pakistan and Canada. KHANUM SHAIKH Gender,ReligiousAgency,and the Subjectof Al-HudIanternational Abstract: ThefocusofthispaperisAl-HudaInternational,a Pakistan-basedSunniMuslimwomen's or.9anizatiown orkin.9to brin...

... informed by Walker's womanism, African American literary studies, and the history of Afro-Atlantic religions, this essay explores connections among these signal components of Clifton's work: namely, the poet's sense of agency and authority; the power of personal and collective history; and a nonsensational...

... argues that in Kerala too, “a normative ‘dominant woman’ paradigm has emerged that privileges upper-caste and middle-class experiences over and against other expressions of womanhood mediated by caste, class, race, and religion” (6). Privileged Minorities begins with a short but useful sketch...

... enlightened perspective. Yasmin went on to explain: I don’t think there is any restriction on the part of the religion [Islam] that says we cannot accommodate ourselves into the way society changes and development occurs. And if we adapt ourselves to these changes, [and] these developments within...

... from the effects of increasing economic exploitation; erosion of social and democratic rights; discrimination based on class, race, gender, color, and religion; and efforts by the media to misinform the public by mystifying and distorting current realities and future possibilities. The Cairo conference...

... and controlled by the state. The second section is devoted to an analysis of oppression couched in the traditional, interlocking "public" discourses oflaw, tradition, and religion. These two sections-of the private and public spheres-aim to highlight the totalizing control imposed upon women. SHAMELESS WOMEN 29...

... and academic progressive sensibilities reinforced the potential appeal of the Turkish formula specifying the relationship of pious Muslim to secular Muslim as analogous to that of Black to white, thereby eliding the complicated and locally embedded becomings of religion, race, ethnicity, class, gender...

..., the colonial construct of Islam maintains the idea of Islam as a premodern, primitive, and fetishistic religion in which women are oppressed and compelled to veil. Installing Europe as modern and Islam as premodern, the idea that Muslims are an uncivilized people provides a path for the ascendancy of whiteness...

... the division of the world into zones of traditionalism and modernity, particularly in questions related to women, religion, and the postcolonial nation-state. We need intensely nuanced accounts of the relationships among Islam, women, and modernity in a manner that highlights the specificity of Muslim women's...

... relationships (a unique system of political economy that I have described as a relational matriarchal model (Amadiume 2002) as opposed to the androcentric political culture of patriarchy, imperialism, and violence. The indigenous religions were also pluralistic, as Earth Goddess religion was combined...

..., the liquid that regulates filiation. Similarly, uncontrolled white milk through unsanctioned miscegenation taints filiation. These families fear the threat that proximity to blacks and mixed-race or mulatto children poses to power structures such as politics, lines of filiation, and religion. Additionally...

... but is not classified as such have increased in frequency among Muslims and other groups. They point to a complex set of factors. On the one hand, law enforcement seek certain criteria, namely an overt verbal expression of hatred based on race or religion, in designating hate crimes. As a result, in addition...

... to it patriarchal laws that influence the country's legal system (Ordonez 1997). Espiritu does not acknowledge how the macho, heterosexual construct of the Catholic religion has also affected Filipino American women in their relation to family and home. Given the discussion of religion in Espiritu's...

.... This is what I know of that Egyptian queen: It is said that she was a princess from another land. She was the wife of Akhenaten, and the mother of six daughters. She and her husband started a new religion. But then she suddenly disappeared from public record. Some scholars believe that she was banished...