Black Routes to Islam

by Marable; Aidi

• ISBN13: 9781403984005
• ISBN10: 140398400X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-07-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

The Critical Black Studies Series celebrates its fourth volume, Black Routes to Islam. The series, under the general supervision of Manning Marable, features readers and anthologies examining challenging topics within the contemporary black experience--in the United States, the Caribbean, Africa, and across the African Diaspora. Previously published in the series are Transnational Blackness, Racializing Justice, Disenfranchising Lives: The Racism, Criminal Justice, and Law Reader (September 2007) and Seeking Higher Ground: The Hurricane Katrina Crisis, Race, and Public Policy Reader (January 2008).Celebrating the fourth volume ofCRITICAL BLACK STUDIESSeries Editor: Manning MarableThe authors included in this volume explore different dimensions of the more than century-long interaction between Black America and Islam. Starting with the 19th century narratives of African American travelers to the Holy Land, the following chapters probe Islam's role in urban social movements, music and popular culture, gender dynamics, relations between African Americans and Muslim immigrants, and the racial politics of American Islam with the ongoing war in Iraq and the US's deepening involvement in the Orient.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Early Muslim Presence and Its Significance	p. 1
Geographies and the Political Imagination
Locating Palestine in Pre-1948: Black Internationalism	p. 17
Black Orientalism: Its Genesis, Aims, and Significance for American Islam	p. 33
Islamism and Its African American Muslim Critics: Black Muslime in the Era of the Arab Cold War	p. 49
East of the Sun (West of the Moon): Islam, the Ahmadis, and African America	p. 69
Representing Permanent War: Black Power's Palestine and the End(s) of Civil Rights	p. 79
Solidarity and Resistance
From Harlem to Algiers: Transnational Solidarities between the African American Freedom Movement and Algeria, 1962-1978	p. 99
Let Us Be Moors: Race, Islam, and "Connected Histories"	p. 121
Constructing Masculinity: Interactions between Islam and African American Youth Since C. Eric Lincoln's The Black Muslims in America	p. 141
Through Sunni Women's Eyes: Black Feminism and the Nation of Islam	p. 155
Black Arabic: Some Notes on African American Muslims and the Arabic Language	p. 167
Lights, Camera, Suspension: Freezing the Frame on the Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf-Anthem Controversy	p. 191
Protect Ya Neck (Remix): Muslims and the Carceral Imagination in the Age of Guantánamo	p. 207
Urban Encounters
Overlapping Diasporas, Multiracial Lives: South Asian Muslims in U.S. Communities of Color, 1880-1970	p. 227
West African "Soul Brothers" in Harlem: Immigration, Islam, and the Black Encounter	p. 249
The Blackstone Legacy: Islam and the Rise of Ghetto Cosmopolitanism	p. 271
Jihadis in the Hood: Race, Urban Islam, and the War on Terror	p. 283
Conclusion
Rediscovering Malcolm's Life: A Historian's Adventures in Living History	p. 299
About the Contributors	p. 317
Index	p. 321
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