@article{779268,
      recid = {779268},
      author = {Nayel, Amina Alrasheed,},
      title = {Alternative performativity of Muslimness : the  intersection of race, gender, religion, and migration /},
      pages = {1 online resource.},
      abstract = {The book highlights issues related to the construction of  gender in Africa and African identity politics. It explores  the limitations of the constructed category of “African  Muslim woman” in West Yorkshire. Amina Alrasheed Nayel uses  Black feminist epistemology along with postcolonial,  feminist, and critical race theory to examine the multiple  identities that Sudanese women negotiate in the UK. The  diverse settings of Islam and Islamic culture,  circumscribed around issues of performativity of Islam and  identity construction in the diasporic space are unpacked  in this volume. In addition, this work analyzes specific  practices and performances, starting with the multifaceted  nature of Islam and the problematic concepts of  “Sunni/Sufi,” “Muslim woman,” “race,” and “blackness.” The  book reveals that exile, nostalgia, and racial/ethnic  differences within Islam and the wider UK community  underpin the performativity of Muslimness of the Sudanese  women living in West Yorkshire, and reiterates the  importance of moving beyond the homogeneity of the idea of  “Muslim woman” towards investigating the complexities of  this group. .},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/779268},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44051-4},
}