Islam and the Blackamerican
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Publication
2007 - Oxford University Press, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
58,750 words, Guess
Page Count
235 pages
Physical Format
EBook
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL24281994M
- Internet Archiveislamblackameric0000jack
- ISBN-139780195343571
- ISBN-100195343573
- OverDrive4998DC3C-98E0-435F-90D3-0D35122EB16A
and 2 more
- OCLC Control Number61363249
- Better World Books9780195343571
Classifications
- LCCBP221.J34 2005
- LCCBP221 .J34 2005eb
- DDC297.8/7
and 1 more
- LCCBP221 .J34 2005
Description
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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