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Complexity beyond intersections: race, class, and neighborhood disadvantage among African American muslims

This study uses the case of African American Muslims to examine the intersection of religious inequality with other forms of disadvantage. It draws on more than six years of ethnographic and historical research in an African American Muslim community in a poor neighborhood in Los Angeles, comparing the experiences of community members with existing research on first- and second-generation Muslim immigrants. It addresses the three most prominent axes of difference between African American and immigrant Muslims -race/ethnicity, class, and neighborhood disadvantage- to explicate the ways in which religion may compound existing inequalities, or in some cases create new forms of difference. It also shows how identifying as native-born Americans allows African American Muslims to claim religion as a cultural advantage in certain situations. Religion is complex not only when different forms of inequality intersect but when these intersections create a different way of understanding what religion means for people of faith.

Complexity beyond intersections: race, class, and neighborhood disadvantage among African American muslims

Urheber*in: Prickett, Pamela

Attribution 4.0 International

ISSN
2183-2803
Extent
Seite(n): 98-106
Language
Englisch
Notes
Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

Bibliographic citation
Social Inclusion, 6(2)

Subject
Soziologie, Anthropologie
Soziale Probleme und Sozialdienste
Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie
Religionssoziologie
soziale Probleme
Migration
Nachbarschaft
Migration
ethnische Herkunft
USA
Zuwanderung
soziale Klasse
Religion
Muslim
Einwanderung
Ungleichheit
Vergleich

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Prickett, Pamela
Event
Veröffentlichung
(when)
2018

DOI
URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-57896-3
Rights
GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
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21.06.2024, 4:26 PM CEST

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  • Zeitschriftenartikel

Associated

  • Prickett, Pamela

Time of origin

  • 2018

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