Remaking Respectability: African American Women in Interwar Detroit 1469611007, 9781469611006

African American women of the Old West

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Inner Lives: Voices of African American Women In Prison 9780814743294

Interviews with African American women in prison. The rate of women entering prison has increased nearly 400 percent s

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Women Remaking American Judaism [1 ed.] 9780814335680, 9780814332801

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Women in African Parliaments 9781626371255

Working together across religious, ethnic, and class divisions, African women are helping to formulate legislation and f

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Modernism, Fashion and Interwar Women Writers 9781474427432

Explores the interaction between literary and sartorial style in women writers of the interwar period An unprecedented

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Black Resonance: Iconic Women Singers and African American Literature 9780813562513

Ever since Bessie Smith’s powerful voice conspired with the “race records” industry to make her a star in the 1920s, Afr

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Engaged Surrender: African American Women and Islam 9780520937062

Commonly portrayed in the media as holding women in strict subordination and deference to men, Islam is nonetheless attr

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Modern Arab Kingship: Remaking the Ottoman Political Order in the Interwar Middle East 9780691249353

How the “recycling” of the Ottoman Empire’s uses of genealogy and religion created new political orders in the Middle Ea

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American Misfits and the Making of Middle-Class Respectability 9781400888092

How American respectability has been built by maligning those who don't make the grade How did Americans come to

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Muslim American City: Gender and Religion in Metro Detroit 9781479877218

Explores how Muslim Americans test the boundaries of American pluralism In 2004, the al-Islah Islamic Center in Hamtram

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