Islam in the African-American Experience
Title | Islam in the African-American Experience PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Brent Turner |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 358 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | African Americans |
ISBN | 9780253343239 |
The involvement of African Americans with Islam reaches back to the earliest days of the African presence in North America. This book explores these roots in the Middle East, West Africa and antebellum America.
Islam and the Black Experience: African American History Reconsidered
Title | Islam and the Black Experience: African American History Reconsidered PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Nash |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2018-08-30 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9781524941024 |
Examines a facet of African history and blackness that often goes unexamined: a substantial portion of its roots lie in Islam. This publication analyzes the effect of Islamic blackness upon African America, from slavery to pop culture and its evolution in between.
Black Crescent
Title | Black Crescent PDF eBook |
Author | Michael A. Gomez |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 408 |
Release | 2005-03-21 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521840958 |
Beginning with Latin America in the fifteenth century, this book, first published in 2005, is a social history of the experiences of African Muslims and their descendants throughout the Americas, including the Caribbean. The record under slavery is examined, as is the post-slavery period into the twentieth century. The experiences vary, arguably due to some extent to the Old World context. Muslim revolts in Brazil are also discussed, especially in 1835, by way of a nuanced analysis. The second part of the book looks at the emergence of Islam among the African-descended in the United States in the twentieth century, with successive chapters on Noble Drew Ali, Elijah Muhammad, and Malcolm X, with a view to explaining how orthodoxy arose from varied unorthodox roots.
Black Pilgrimage to Islam
Title | Black Pilgrimage to Islam PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Dannin |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 372 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780195300246 |
Drawing on hundreds of interviews, Dannin provides an unprecedented look inside the fascinating and little understood world of black Muslims. He examines the tension between the Nation of Islam and Islamic orthodoxy, visits mosques and prisons, and ponders the effect of the assassination of Malcolm X.
African American Islam
Title | African American Islam PDF eBook |
Author | Aminah Beverly McCloud |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 2014-07-16 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1136649379 |
Islam is a vital, growing religion in America. Little is known, however, about the religion except through the biased lens of media reports which brand African American Muslims as "Black Muslims" and portray their communities as places of social protest. African American Islam challenges these myths by contextualizing the experience and history of African American Islamic life. This is the first book to investigate the diverse African American Islamic community on its own terms, in its own language and through its own synthesis of Islamic history and philosophy.
Islam and the Black Experience
Title | Islam and the Black Experience PDF eBook |
Author | Mikal NASH |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2019-03-04 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781524978297 |
Muslim Cool
Title | Muslim Cool PDF eBook |
Author | Su'ad Abdul Khabeer |
Publisher | NYU Press |
Pages | 285 |
Release | 2016-12-06 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1479894508 |
Interviews with young Muslims in Chicago explore the complexity of identities formed at the crossroads of Islam and hip hop This groundbreaking study of race, religion and popular culture in the 21st century United States focuses on a new concept, “Muslim Cool.” Muslim Cool is a way of being an American Muslim—displayed in ideas, dress, social activism in the ’hood, and in complex relationships to state power. Constructed through hip hop and the performance of Blackness, Muslim Cool is a way of engaging with the Black American experience by both Black and non-Black young Muslims that challenges racist norms in the U.S. as well as dominant ethnic and religious structures within American Muslim communities. Drawing on over two years of ethnographic research, Su'ad Abdul Khabeer illuminates the ways in which young and multiethnic US Muslims draw on Blackness to construct their identities as Muslims. This is a form of critical Muslim self-making that builds on interconnections and intersections, rather than divisions between “Black” and “Muslim.” Thus, by countering the notion that Blackness and the Muslim experience are fundamentally different, Muslim Cool poses a critical challenge to dominant ideas that Muslims are “foreign” to the United States and puts Blackness at the center of the study of American Islam. Yet Muslim Cool also demonstrates that connections to Blackness made through hip hop are critical and contested—critical because they push back against the pervasive phenomenon of anti-Blackness and contested because questions of race, class, gender, and nationality continue to complicate self-making in the United States.