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The Promise of Patriarchy: Women and the Nation of Islam

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Availability:In StockContributor:Ula Yvette TaylorSeries:The John Hope Franklin African American History and CulturePublish date:2017-10-09Pages:288
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of North Carolina PressISBN-13:9781469633930ISBN-10:1469633930UPC:9781469633930Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:African American & Black, Women, Islamic StudiesSize:9.02 x 6.30 x 0.72 inchesWeight:0.9414Product ID:SC4SERJZPA
The patriarchal structure of the Nation of Islam (NOI) promised black women the prospect of finding a provider and a protector among the organization's men, who were fiercely committed to these masculine roles. Black women's experience in the NOI, however, has largely remained on the periphery of scholarship. Here, Ula Taylor documents their struggle to escape the devaluation of black womanhood while also clinging to the empowering promises of patriarchy. Taylor shows how, despite being relegated to a lifestyle that did not encourage working outside of the home, NOI women found freedom in being able to bypass the degrading experiences connected to labor performed largely by working-class black women and in raising and educating their children in racially affirming environments.

Telling the stories of women like Clara Poole (wife of Elijah Muhammad) and Burnsteen Sharrieff (secretary to W. D. Fard, founder of the Allah Temple of Islam), Taylor offers a compelling narrative that explains how their decision to join a homegrown, male-controlled Islamic movement was a complicated act of self-preservation and self-love in Jim Crow America.
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of North Carolina PressISBN-13:9781469633930ISBN-10:1469633930UPC:9781469633930Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:African American & Black, Women, Islamic StudiesSize:9.02 x 6.30 x 0.72 inchesWeight:0.9414Product ID:SC4SERJZPA
Taylor, Ula Yvette: - Ula Yvette Taylor is professor of African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press

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