Africana Islamic Studies (eBook)

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

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2016
202 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-7345-9 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

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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.

Autor

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.

Inhalt

Introduction, Abul PitreChapter 1. “Raising Her Voice”: Writings by, for, and about Women in Muhammad Speaks Newspaper, 1961–1975, Bayyinah S. JeffriesChapter 2. Take Two: Nation of Islam Women Fifty Years after Civil Rights, C. S’thembile WestChapter 3. Elijah Muhammad, Multicultural Education, Critical White Studies, and Critical Pedagogy, Abul PitreChapter 4. Bismillah—Message to the Blackman Revisited: Being and Power, Jinaki AbdullahChapter 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 CrawfordChapter 7. The Peculiar Institution: The Depiction of Slavery in Steven Barnes’s Lion’s Blood and Zulu Heart;Rebecca HankinsChapter 8. Islam in the Africana Literary Tradition, Christel N. TempleChapter 9. Martin L. King Jr. and Malcolm X, Charles AllenChapter 10. Elijah Muhammad’s Nation of Islam: Separatism, Regendering, and a Secular Approach to Black Power after Malcolm X (1965–1975), Ula TaylorChapter 11. “My Malcolm”: Self-Reliance and African American Cultural Expression, Toya Conston and Emile KoenigChapter 12. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. the Modernist and Minister Malcolm X the Postmodernist?: An Analysis of Perspectives and Justice, Kelly Jacobs

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.3.2016
• Reihe/Serie: The Africana Experience and Critical Leadership Studies
• Co-Autor: Jinaki Muslimah Abdullah, Abul Pitre, Ula Taylor, Christel N. Temple, C. S'thembile West, Toya Conston, Malachi D. Crawford, Rebecca Hankins, Kelly O. Jacobs, Bayyinah S. Jeffries, Charles E. Allen Jr., James L. Conyers Jr., Emile Koenig
• Zusatzinfo: 9 Illustrations including: - 9 Tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: African American Studies • critical race theory • Cultural Studies • Elijah Muhammad • Islam • Malcolm X • Martin Luther King jr. • Nation of Islam • women studies
• ISBN-10: 0-7391-7345-6 / 0739173456
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7391-7345-9 / 9780739173459