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Book SynopsisAfricana 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 womenâs studies, education, critical race theory, politics, history, and sociology.
Trade ReviewIn Africana Islamic Studies, editors James L. Conyers and Abul Pitre have assembled a knowledgeable coterie of scholars on a diversity of issues pertinent to understanding Islam, both its domestic and global implications. I was reminded of Steven Barboza’s American Jihad, and Africana Islamic Studies brings additional depth to the subject and expands the religion’s historical importance via Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X (El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz). -- Herb Boyd, co-editor with Ilyasah Shabazz of The Diary of Malcolm X
Table of ContentsIntroduction, 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
