Othered: Life as a Black Muslim Woman in Contemporary America

In addition to experiencing varying degrees of Islamophobia, Black Muslim women continue to endure marginalization within the American Muslim community.

by Khadijah Akeem-Cox

She was proceeding through a Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) drive-through in Washington, D.C. when she, in her own telling, “lightly honked her horn” at the car ahead of her because it was “holding up the line.” She felt justified in her annoyance; the customer in the car in question appeared to be conversing with the fast-food employ…