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Assistant Professor
of Religion
Address:
Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies
430 Cosby
350 Spelman Lane
Atlanta, GA 30314
Phone: 404-270-5524
Fax: 404-270-5523
E-mail:
jkarim@spelman.edu |
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Professor Authors Book on American Muslim Women
Jamillah Karim, Ph.D., assistant professor of religious studies, is the author of the new book, "American Muslim Women: Negotiating Race, Class, and Gender Within the Ummah." Released today, the book explores the relationships and sometimes alliances between African-Americans and South Asian immigrants in Chicago and Atlanta, drawing on interviews with a diverse group of women from these two communities.
Dr. Karim investigates what it means to negotiate religious sisterhood against America's race and class hierarchies, and how those in the American Muslim community both construct and cross ethnic boundaries. This ethnographic study explores how Islamic ideals of racial harmony and equality create hopeful possibilities in an American society that remains challenged by race and class inequalities. "American Muslim Women" reveals the ways in which multiple forms of identity frame the American Muslim experience, in some moments reinforcing ethnic boundaries, and at other times, resisting them.
Courses:
REL 222 Introduction to the Study of Islam
REL 223 Women and Islam
REL 323 Race and American Islam
REL 224 Introduction to the Qur’an
Degree:
Ph.D. Duke University
M.A. Duke University
B.S.E. Duke University
Current Research:
Jamillah Karim’s research interests include Islam and Muslims in the United States (African American, South Asian and Arab), Islamic Feminism, Race and Ethnicity, and Immigration and Transnational Identity. She is currently conducting research on second-generation African American Muslims.
Recent Awards:
2007
Faculty Development Grant, Spelman College
2005
Carter G. Woodson Postdoctoral Fellowship in Afro-American and African Studies, University of Virginia
2005
Faculty Development Grant, Spelman College
Recent Publications:
"American Muslim Women: Negotiating Race, Class, and Gender within the Ummah."
New York: New York University Press, 2008 .
“Space: Mosques - North America.” Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures. Ed. Suad Joseph. London: Brill, 2007.
“Ethnic Borders in American Muslim Communities,” in Crossing Borders/Constructing Boundaries: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity in the Migrant Experience, ed. Caroline Brettell. Lexington Books, 2007.
“Islam for the People: Muslim Men’s Voices on Race and Ethnicity in the American Ummah.” In Voices of Islam. Vol. 5, Voices of Change, eds.Vincent Cornell and Omid Safi. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2007.
“Through Sunni Women’s Eyes: Black Feminism and the Nation of Islam.” Souls Journal 8, no. 4 (Fall 2006): 19-30.
“To Be Black, Female, and Muslim: A Candid Conversation about Race in the American Ummah .” Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs 26, no. 2 (August 2006): 225-233.
“Between Immigrant Islam and Black Liberation: Young Muslims Inherit Global Muslim and African American Legacies.” The Muslim World 95, no. 4 (October 2005): 497-513.
“Voices of Faith, Faces of Beauty: Connecting American Muslim Women through Azizah Magazine.” In Muslim Networks from Hajj to Hip Hop, ed. miriam cooke and Bruce B. Lawrence, 169-188. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2005.
