Motherhood extends into unpaid anti-racism labor for Muslim American women

Evidence

Afia’s desire to dispel the myths of Muslims was clearly gendered. It was her identity as a mother that drove her to become a sort of ambassador of Islam. In her studies on gender and work, Hochschild (2001; 2003) reveals that even when women are employed in the labor sector along with their husbands, they come home to do the unseen and unpaid labor of childcare, housework, and community service. As mothers, Muslim women were driven to make these spaces more inclusive for their families. They know the impact anti-Muslim sentiments can have on their children’s lives growing up in America. They wanted to protect their children from this racialization. — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 403

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the earlier accepted link about Victorian culture gendering silence/domesticity — here unpaid caretaking labor is extended into community defense work.