Being Muslim : A Cultural History of Women of Color in American Islam / / Sylvia Chan-Malik

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910480772303321
• Autore: Chan-Malik Sylvia
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : , : New York University Press, , [2018]; Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2021; ©[2018]
• ISBN: 1-4798-8155-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (203 pages)
• Collana: NYU scholarship online
• Disciplina: 305.48/697
• Soggetti: Muslims, Black; African American women; Muslim women - United States; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Previously issued in print: 2018.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-260) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. “Four American Moslem Ladies” -- 2. Insurgent Domesticity -- 3. Garments for One Another -- 4. Chadors, Feminists, Terror -- 5. A Third Language -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author
• Sommario/riassunto: 2018 Outstanding Academic Title, given by Choice Magazine An exploration of twentieth and twenty-first century U.S. Muslim womanhood that centers the lived experience of women of color For Sylvia Chan-Malik, Muslim womanhood is constructed through everyday and embodied acts of resistance, what she calls affective insurgency. In negotiating the histories of anti-Blackness, U.S. imperialism, and women’s rights of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Being Muslim explores how U.S. Muslim women’s identities are expressions of Islam as both Black protest religion and universal faith tradition. Through archival images, cultural texts, popular media, and interviews, the author maps how communities of American Islam became sites of safety, support, spirituality, and social activism, and how women of color were central to their formation. By accounting for ; American Islam’s rich histories of mobilization and community, Being Muslim brings insight to the resistance that all Muslim women must engage in the post-9/11 United States. From the stories that she gathers, Chan-Malik demonstrates the diversity and similarities of Black, Arab, South Asian, Latina, and multiracial Muslim women, and how American understandings of Islam have shifted against the evolution of U.S. white nationalism over the past century. In borrowing from the lineages of Black and women-of-color feminism, Chan-Malik offers us a new vocabulary for U.S. Muslim feminism, one that is as conscious of race, gender, sexuality, and nation, as it is region and religion.

Vietnam 1946 [[electronic resource] ] : how the war began / / Stein Tønnesson

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910778402203321
• Autore: Tønnesson Stein
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2009
• ISBN: 1-282-35987-8; 9786612359873; 0-520-94460-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (389 p.)
• Collana: From Indochina to Vietnam : revolution and war in a global perspective ; ; 3
• Disciplina: 959.704/11
• Soggetti: Indochinese War, 1946-1954; Indochinese War, 1946-1954 - Causes; Vietnam History 1945-1975; France Relations Vietnam; Vietnam Relations France; China Relations Vietnam; Vietnam Relations China
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "A Philip E. Lilienthal book in Asian studies"--Jacket flap.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Foreword By The Series ; Editors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. A Clash Of Republics -- 2. The Chinese Trap -- 3. Modus Vivendi -- 4. Massacre -- 5. The French Trap -- 6. Who Turned Out The Lights? -- 7. If Only . . . -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Based on multiarchival research conducted over almost three decades, this landmark account tells how a few men set off a war that would lead to tragedy for millions. Stein Tønnesson was one of the first historians to delve into scores of secret French, British, and American political, military, and intelligence documents. In this fascinating account of an unfolding tragedy, he brings this research to bear to disentangle the complex web of events, actions, and mentalities that led to thirty years of war in Indochina. As the story unfolds, Tønnesson challenges some widespread misconceptions, arguing that French general Leclerc fell into a Chinese trap in March 1946, and Vietnamese general Giap into a French trap in December. Taking us from the antechambers of policymakers in Paris to the docksides of Haiphong and the streets of Hanoi, Vietnam 1946 provides the most vivid account to date of the series of events that would make Vietnam the most embattled area in the world during the Cold War period.