Black Routes to Islam

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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 End(s) 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