Black Arts, Black Muslims: Islam in the Black Freedom Struggle - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Ellen McLarneySeries:Black Lives in the Diaspora: Past / Present / FuturePublish date:3/31/2026Pages:376
Language:EnglishPublisher:Columbia University PressISBN-13:9780231219419ISBN-10:231219415UPC:9780231219419Book Category:Literary Criticism, Religion, PoetryBook Subcategory:American, IslamBook Topic:African American & BlackSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.5521Product ID:SCBGZ2B1RT
Black Arts, Black Muslims: Islam in the Black Freedom Struggle
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, prominent figures in the Black Arts Movement (BAM) converted to Islam and took new names. Poets such as Amiri Baraka, Sonia Sanchez, Askia Muhammad Touré, and Marvin X incorporated Islamic words and expressions, references to the Qur'an, and Arabic script, as well as symbols like the crescent star and depictions of Islamic architecture and clothing. They...
Series: Black Lives in the Diaspora: Past / Present / Future
Language:EnglishPublisher:Columbia University PressISBN-13:9780231219419ISBN-10:231219415UPC:9780231219419Book Category:Literary Criticism, Religion, PoetryBook Subcategory:American, IslamBook Topic:African American & BlackSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.5521Product ID:SCBGZ2B1RT
Ellen McLarney is associate professor of Middle East, Arabic, and African and African American studies at Duke University. She led a project on Muslim American poets and musicians of African descent with the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art as well as an initiative on Islam and racial justice in the American South. She has also published in Souls, The Black Scholar, and Black Perspectives.
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