Africana Islamic Studies (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Conyers Jr., James L.; Pitre, Abul

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780739173459
• Artikelnr.: 44845293

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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