Far from Mecca: Gender and the Performance of Piety in the Muslim Caribbean
Abstract: The changing norms of Muslim women’s dress and national participation are intersectionally gendered and racialized in the twenty-first-century Anglophone Caribbean, where nineteenth-century subcontinental Indian indentured labor, rather than translatlantic African slavery, has been more visibly linked to regional Islam. Gendered Muslim dress and cultural practices are framed as obstructing postcolonial creolization projects and …