Starting with 19th century narratives of African American travelers to the Holy Land, the following chapters probe Islam's role in urban social movements, music and popular culture, relations between African Americans and Muslim immigrants, and the racial politics of American Islam with the ongoing war in Iraq. INDICE: Introduction: Captives and Narratives: The Early Muslim Presence and Its Significance; M.Marable ; H.Aidi - PART I: GEOGRAPHIES AND THE POLITICAL IMAGINATION - Locating Palestine in the African American Imagination: Captives and Narratives: The Early Muslim Presence and Its Significance; A.Lubin - Black Orientalism: Its Genesis, Aims and Significance for American Islam; S.Jackson - Islamism and Its African American Muslim Critics: Black Muslims in the Era of the Arab Cold War; E.Curtis - East of the Sun (West of the Moon): Islam, the Ahmadis, and African America; M.Bayoumi - Representing Permanent War: Black Power's Palestine and the End(s) of Civil Rights; K.P.Feldman - PART II: SOLIDARITY AND RESISTANCE - 'Every brother on a rooftop can quote Fanon': Algeria in the African-American Imaginary, 1959-1978; S.Meghelli - Let Us Be Moors:Race, Islam, and 'Connected Histories'; H.Aidi - Constructing Masculinity: Interactions between Islam and African-American Youth Since C. Eric Lincoln; R.B.Turner - Through Sunni Women's Eyes: Black Feminism and the Nation of Islama;J.Karim - Black Arabic: Some Notes on African American Muslims and the ArabicLanguage; S.A.Khabeer - Lights, Camera, Suspension: The Story of Chris Jackson's Odyssey; Z.Grewal - Protect Ya Neck: Muslims and the Carceral Imagination in the Age of Guantanamo; S.Daulatzai - PART III: URBAN ENCOUNTERS - Overlapping Diasporas, Multiracial Lives: South Asian Muslims in U.S. Communities of Color, 1890-1970; V.Bald - African 'Soul Brothers' in the Hood: Immigration, Islam and the Black Encounter; Z.Abdullah - The BlackStone Legacy: Islam and the Rise of Ghetto Cosmopolitanism; R.Nashashibi - Jihadis in the Hood: Race, Urban Islam and the War on Terror; H.Aidi - PART IV: CONCLUSION - Rediscovering Malcolm's Life: A Historian's Adventures in Living History; M.Marable - About the Authors
- ISBN: 978-1-4039-8400-5
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 336
- Fecha Publicación: 15/07/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés