No God but Man

On Race, Knowledge, and Terrorism

Atiya Husain (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

208 Seiten

2025
Duke University Press (Verlag)
9781478031369 (ISBN)

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Reconceptualizing the relationship between race and Islam in the United States, No God but Man theorizes race as an epistemology using the FBI’s post-9/11 Most Wanted Terrorist list and its posters as its starting point. Atiya Husain traces the origins of the FBI wanted poster form to the work of nineteenth-century social scientist Adolphe Quetelet, specifically his overvalued type of human called “average man.” Husain argues that this notion of the human continues to structure wanted posters, as well as much contemporary social scientific thinking about race. Focusing on the curious representations on the Most Wanted Terrorist list that range from Muslims who lack a race category on their posters to the 2013 addition of Black revolutionary Assata Shakur, Husain demonstrates the ongoing influence of the average man and its relevance even today, proposing a counterweight to the category by engaging Shakur’s turn to Islam in the 1970s in the legal context. In doing so, Husain shows the limitations of race as an analytical category altogether.

Atiya Husain is Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Williams College.

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1. L’Homme Moyen and American Anthropometry 23
2. Assata, The Muslim 51
3. The Rule of Racelessness 83
4. Assata, Black Madonna 107
Conclusion. Race: Theirs and Ours 131
Notes 139
Bibliography 169
Index 185

Erscheinungsdatum	06.12.2024
Reihe/Serie	Global Insecurities
Zusatzinfo	18 illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	295 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-13	9781478031369 / 9781478031369
Zustand	Neuware