Understanding Black Muslims in the U.S. is essential not only to understanding America’s Islamophobia but to understanding pop culture, racial capitalism, and surveillance:
Islam within Black America is often oversimplified or identified using terms that do not belong to it and thus cannot fully capture such a diverse community.
, the unifying relationships of the world community of Islam. By looking into the community using its own terms, McCloud’s book offers something entirely unique.According to Sherman A. Jackson, Islam among Blackamericans owes its prominence to “Black Religion,” an American response that is a form of religion-based protest against anti-Black racism. Within his book, Jackson frames Islam’s extensive history in America as existing within a series of resurrections, almost like waves.
The move of Black Muslims as only passive participants of Islam to authorities makes up a key component of Jackson’s third resurrection.The singular focus on Black male leaders, which has been standard over time, perpetuates the notion that Black American Muslim women are, and have always been, invisible. Through oral histories and interviews, Women of the Nation catalogs the experiences and influences of women in the Nation of Islam.
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