Africana Islamic Studies

James L. Conyers Jr., Abul Pitre (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

222 Seiten

2016
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-7344-2 (ISBN)

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Africana Islamic Studies explores the diverse contributions that African Americans have made to the formation of Islam in the United States. Chapter contributors cover a wide range of topics that add to the discourse in areas such as women’s studies, education, critical race theory, politics, history, and sociology.

Africana Islamic Studies highlights the diverse contributions that African Americans have made to the formation of Islam in the United States. It specifically focuses on the Nation of Islam and its patriarch Elijah Muhammad with regards to the African American Islamic experience. Contributors explore topics such as gender, education, politics, and sociology from the African American perspective on Islam. This volume offers a unique view of the longstanding Islamic discourse in the United States and its impact on the American cultural landscape.

James L. Conyers, Jr., is professor and director of the African American Studies Program and director of the Center of African American Culture at the University of Houston. Abul Pitre is professor and department head of Educational Leadership and Counseling at Prairie View A&M University.

Introduction, Abul Pitre
Chapter 1. “Raising Her Voice”: Writings by, for, and about Women in Muhammad Speaks Newspaper, 1961–1975, Bayyinah S. Jeffries
Chapter 2. Take Two: Nation of Islam Women Fifty Years after Civil Rights, C. S’thembile West
Chapter 3. Elijah Muhammad, Multicultural Education, Critical White Studies, and Critical Pedagogy, Abul Pitre
Chapter 4. Bismillah—Message to the Blackman Revisited: Being and Power, Jinaki Abdullah
Chapter 5. The Nation of Islam: A Historiography of Pan Africanist Thought and Intellectualism, James L. Conyers Jr.
Chapter 6. Understanding Elijah Muhammad: An Intellectual Biography of Elijah Muhammad, Malachi Crawford
Chapter 7. The Peculiar Institution: The Depiction of Slavery in Steven Barnes’s Lion’s Blood and Zulu Heart; Rebecca Hankins
Chapter 8. Islam in the Africana Literary Tradition, Christel N. Temple
Chapter 9. Martin L. King Jr. and Malcolm X, Charles Allen
Chapter 10. Elijah Muhammad’s Nation of Islam: Separatism, Regendering, and a Secular Approach to Black Power after Malcolm X (1965–1975), Ula Taylor
Chapter 11. “My Malcolm”: Self-Reliance and African American Cultural Expression, Toya Conston and Emile Koenig
Chapter 12. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. the Modernist and Minister Malcolm X the Postmodernist?: An Analysis of Perspectives and Justice, Kelly Jacobs

Erscheinungsdatum	12.03.2016
Reihe/Serie	The Africana Experience and Critical Leadership Studies
Co-Autor	Jinaki Muslimah Abdullah, Charles E. Allen, Toya Conston
Zusatzinfo	9 Tables
Sprache	englisch
Maße	161 x 239 mm
Gewicht	508 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-7391-7344-8 / 0739173448
ISBN-13	978-0-7391-7344-2 / 9780739173442
Zustand	Neuware