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dc.contributor.advisor | Rothenberg, Celia | en_US |
dc.contributor.advisor | Takim, Liyakat | en_US |
dc.contributor.advisor | Sinding, Christina | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Mendes, Jan-Therese A. | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-06-18T16:54:09Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2014-06-18T16:54:09Z | - |
dc.date.created | 2011-09-26 | en_US |
dc.date.issued | 2011-10 | en_US |
dc.identifier.other | opendissertations/6269 | en_US |
dc.identifier.other | 7313 | en_US |
dc.identifier.other | 2259528 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11375/11289 | - |
dc.description.abstract | <p>From what <em>specific </em>socio-cultural “positionality” are African-Canadian Muslim females living their realities? What methods do they employ to locate, (re)claim, and/or assert selfhood from these peripheral spaces within the white nation? How does their shared socio-religio-racial and gendered marginality, potentially, act as a site for inciting a sense of camaraderie towards one another? Such queries frame the content of this thesis which commissions qualitative research methods to unearth answers that rely upon the “particular”--by intimately gazing at 13 Black Muslim women’s gendered-racialized experiences in Toronto. Dividing analysis by religious status this work examines the dynamics distinct to 1. convert and 2.“life-long” Muslim participants’ cultivation of a religious/racial identity. The anti-Black <em>and</em> anti-Islamic discrimination punctuating “multicultural” Canada later collapses investigation into a unified survey of the ways African-Canadian Muslim women in general, contend with the oppressive socio-cultural forces attempting to infringe on their humanity. Research concludes that the adverse <em>or</em> hospitable responses of surrounding communities (these are: the ethnic-majority Muslim community; the non-Muslim Black population; Eurocentric secular society at large) to these women, influences how they both place themselves in their environments <em>and </em>interact with their Black-Muslim female fellows. This thesis argues that the persistent ostrasization of African-Canadian Islamic women within the religious and secular-public spheres of society establishes a necessary, defensive solidarity amongst these individuals; specifically, their communions can erect a nurturing platform to challenge or minimize the impact of oppressive forces--particularly protecting against the mental and social violence inflicted by <em>racist-sexist Islamophobic white supremacist powers</em>.</p> | en_US |
dc.subject | African-Canadian | en_US |
dc.subject | Muslim | en_US |
dc.subject | Convert | en_US |
dc.subject | Women | en_US |
dc.subject | Toronto | en_US |
dc.subject | Discrimination | en_US |
dc.subject | Race, Ethnicity and post-Colonial Studies | en_US |
dc.subject | Race, Ethnicity and post-Colonial Studies | en_US |
dc.title | Exploring Blackness from Muslim, Female, Canadian Realities: Founding Selfhood, (Re)claiming Identity and Negotiating Belongingness Within/Against a Hostile Nation | en_US |
dc.type | thesis | en_US |
dc.contributor.department | Religious Studies | en_US |
dc.description.degree | Master of Arts (MA) | en_US |
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