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Author Taylor, Ula Y., author.

Title The promise of patriarchy : women and the Nation of Islam / Ula Yvette Taylor
Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
©2017

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Description 1 online resource
Series The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
Contents Mrs. Clara Poole -- Building a movement, fighting the devil -- Allah Temple of Islam families : the Dillon report -- Controlling the black body : internal and external challenges -- World War II : women anchoring the Nation of Islam -- Flexing a new womanhood -- Nation of Islam womanhood, 1960-1975 -- The royal family -- The appeal of black nationalism and the promise of prosperity -- Modesty, marriage, and motherhood
Summary Black women's experience in the Nation of Islam 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 7, 2017)
Subject Nation of Islam (Chicago, Ill.) -- History -- 20th century
SUBJECT Nation of Islam (Chicago, Ill.) fast
Subject Black Muslims -- Social conditions
African American women -- Social conditions -- History -- 20th century
Muslim women -- United States -- Social conditions -- History -- 20th century
Patriarchy.
RELIGION -- Islam -- General.
Black Muslims -- Social conditions
African American women -- Social conditions
Muslim women -- Social conditions
Patriarchy
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781469633947
1469633949
9781469633954
1469633957