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Sherman Jackson offers a trenchant examination of the career of Islam among the blacks of America. Jackson notes that no one has offered a convincing explanation of why Islam spread among Blackamericans (a coinage he explains and defends) but not among white Americans or Hispanics. Theassumption has been that there is an African connection. In fact, Jackson shows, none of the distinctive features of African Islam appear in the proto-Islamic, black nationalist movements of the early 20th century. Instead, he argues, Islam owes its momentum to the distinctively American phenomenonof "Black Religion," a God-centered holy protest against anti-black racism. Islam in Black America begins as part of a communal search for tools with which to combat racism and redefine American blackness...
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History, African Americans, Religion, Ethnic identity, African American Muslims, Black nationalism, Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, African americans, African americans, religion, African americans, race identity, Muslims, Race identity, Musulmans noirs américains, Histoire, Noirs américains, Nationalisme noir, Identité ethnique, RELIGION, Islam, GeneralPlaces
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Islam and the Blackamerican: Looking Toward the Third Resurrection
2011, Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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Islam and the Blackamerican
2007, Oxford University Press
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2005, Oxford University Press
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