Black Crescent
Black Crescent
Beginning with Latin America in the fifteenth century, this book, first published in 2005, is a social history of the experiences of African Muslims and their descendants throughout the Americas, including the Caribbean. The record under slavery is examined, as is the post-slavery period into the twentieth century. The experiences vary, arguably due to some extent to the Old World context. Muslim revolts in Brazil are also discussed, especially in 1835, by way of a nuanced analysis. The second part of the book looks at the emergence of Islam among the African-descended in the United States in the twentieth century, with successive chapters on Noble Drew Ali, Elijah Muhammad, and Malcolm X, with a view to explaining how orthodoxy arose from varied unorthodox roots.
- First full-scale study of Islam's origins in early twentieth-century US
- Comprehensive examination of Islam in Latin America and the Caribbean
- Legacies of Islam for various societies examined
Reviews & endorsements
"This sprawling and richly detailed study...may well become a classic in the field of African diasporic studies...Essential." -CHOICE, P. Harvey, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
Product details
March 2005Hardback
9780521840958
396 pages
234 × 156 × 22 mm
0.73kg
7 b/w illus. 7 maps
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Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue
- 1. Ladinos, Gelofes and Mandingas
- 2. Caribbean crescent
- 3. Brazilian sambas
- 4. Muslims in New York
- 5. Founding mothers and fathers of a different sort: African Muslims in the Early North American South
- Interlude. In a Glass darkly - elisive communities
- 6. Breaking away - noble Drew Ali and the foundations of contemporary Islam in African America
- 7. The nation
- 8. Malcolm
- Epilogue.
