Black Routes to Islam

by Marable, Manning; Aidi, Hishaam D.

• ISBN13: 9781403977816
• ISBN10: 140397781X
• Format: Paperback
• 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.

Author Biography

Manning Marable is Professor of History and Political Science and Director, Institute for Research in African American Studies at Columbia University. Hishaam D. Aidi is a Lecturer at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and a contributing editor of Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Culture, Politics and Society.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Captives and Narratives * PART I: Geographies and the Political Imagination * Locating Palestine in the African American Imagination * Black Orientalism * Islamism and Its African American Muslim Critics * East of the Sun (West of the Moon) * Representing Permanent War * PART II: Solidarity and Resistance * “Every brother on a rooftop can quote Fanon" * Let Us Be Moors * Constructing Masculinity * Through Sunni Women's Eyes * Black Arabic * Lights, Camera, Suspension * Protect Ya Neck * PART III: Urban Encounters * Overlapping Diasporas, Multiracial Lives * African “Soul Brothers” in the ‘Hood * The BlackStone Legacy * Jihadis in the Hood * PART IV: Conclusion * Rediscovering Malcolm’s Life * About the Authors

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