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

Managing Inequality: Northern Racial Liberalism in Interwar Detroit 9781479803637

In the wake of the Civil War, many white northern leaders supported race-neutral laws and anti-discrimination statutes.

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

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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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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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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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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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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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African Women In Revolution 1592214452, 9781592214457, 1592214460

"This book is an ambitious, extensive and detailed analysis of the roles played by African women in seven revolutio

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