Author(s): Manning Marable, Hishaam D. Aidi
Year: 2009
Language: English
Pages: 336
Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Introduction: The Early Muslim Presence and Its Significance......Page 8
I: Geographies and the Political Imagination......Page 22
1 Locating Palestine in Pre-1948: Black Internationalism......Page 24
2 Black Orientalism: Its Genesis, Aims, and Significance for American Islam......Page 40
3 Islamism and Its African American Muslim Critics: Black Muslims in the Era of the Arab Cold War......Page 56
4 East of the Sun West of the Moon: Islam, the Ahmadis, and African America......Page 76
5 Representing Permanent War: Black Power’s Palestine and the Ends of Civil Rights......Page 86
II: Solidarity and Resistance......Page 104
6 From Harlem to Algiers: Transnational Solidarities between the African American Freedom Movement and Algeria, 1962–1978......Page 106
7 Let Us Be Moors: Race, Islam, and “Connected Histories”......Page 128
8 Constructing Masculinity: Interactions between Islam and African American Youth Since C. Eric Lincoln’s The Black Muslims in America......Page 148
9 Through Sunni Women’s Eyes: Black Feminism and the Nation of Islam......Page 162
10 Black Arabic: Some Notes on African American Muslims and the Arabic Language......Page 174
11 Lights, Camera, Suspension: Freezing the Frame on the Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf-Anthem Controversy......Page 198
12 Protect Ya Neck Remix: Muslims and the Carceral Imagination in the Age of Guantánamo......Page 214
III: Urban Encounters......Page 232
13 Overlapping Diasporas, Multiracial Lives: South Asian Muslims in U.S. Communities of Color, 1880–1970......Page 234
14 West African “Soul Brothers” in Harlem: Immigration, Islam, and the Black Encounter......Page 256
15 The Blackstone Legacy: Islam and the Rise of Ghetto Cosmopolitanism......Page 278
16 Jihadis in the Hood: Race, Urban Islam, and the War on Terror......Page 290
IV: Conclusion......Page 304
17 Rediscovering Malcolm’s Life: A Historian’s Adventures in Living History......Page 306
About the Contributors......Page 324
D......Page 328
P......Page 329
Z......Page 330
