Islam Among Urban Blacks - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Islam Among Urban Blacks write by Michael Nash. This book was released on 2008. Islam Among Urban Blacks available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines the evolution of Muslim community development in Newark, New Jersey. It is an historical account of the efforts of a diverse community that over several decades grappled with the challenge of establishing a respected place for their Islamic lifestyle within the United States. Further, it is a story linked closely to the experience of African Americans who have claimed Islam as their religion and struggled to create and to maintain an identity in the social fabric of Newark's twentieth-century Black religious culture. The complexities of race, identity, inter-religious and intra-religious relations are the four central themes explored.
Islam in the African-American Experience
Islam in the African-American Experience - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Islam in the African-American Experience write by Richard Brent Turner. This book was released on 2003. Islam in the African-American Experience available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The involvement of African Americans with Islam reaches back to the earliest days of the African presence in North America. This book explores these roots in the Middle East, West Africa and antebellum America.
Islam in Urban America
Islam in Urban America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Islam in Urban America write by Garbi Schmidt. This book was released on 2004. Islam in Urban America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In recent years, world events have trained a harsh spotlight on the Muslim religion and its adherents. The misunderstanding and bias against Muslims in the United States not only persists but has deepened. In this detailed study of an immigrant community in Chicago, Garbi Schmidt considers the formation and meaning of an "American Islam." This vivid portrait of the people and the institutions that draw them together contributes to the academic literature on ethnic and religious identity at the same time as it depicts an immigrant community's struggle against bias and forces that threaten its cohesion. Chicago has long been home to Muslim immigrants from numerous countries in the Middle East and South Asia. For some members of these groups religion carries more weight than ethnic identity in the American context and enables them to form and participate in a broad spectrum of institutions that support their religious and social interests. Schmidt offers her observations of the schools and student associations that serve young Muslims as well as the social, religious, and political organizations that serve adults. By looking at the ways in which children, adolescents, and adults come together in these institutions, she is able to show the dynamic process in which a variegated American Muslim identity takes shape. Readers will come away from this book with a better understanding of the ideological and cultural differences among Muslims and a greater appreciation of their struggles in becoming Americans. Author note: Garbi Schmidt is a senior researcher and coordinator of the ethnic minorities initiative at the Danish National Institute of Social Research, Copenhagen.
Black Routes to Islam
Black Routes to Islam - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Black Routes to Islam write by M. Marable. This book was released on 2009-08-03. Black Routes to Islam available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Starting with 19th century narratives of African American travelers to the Holy Land, the following chapters probe Islam's role in urban social movements, music and popular culture, relations between African Americans and Muslim immigrants, and the racial politics of American Islam with the ongoing war in Iraq.
Black Mecca
Black Mecca - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Black Mecca write by Zain Abdullah. This book was released on 2010-09-30. Black Mecca available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The changes to U.S. immigration law that were instituted in 1965 have led to an influx of West African immigrants to New York, creating an enclave Harlem residents now call ''Little Africa.'' These immigrants are immediately recognizable as African in their wide-sleeved robes and tasseled hats, but most native-born members of the community are unaware of the crucial role Islam plays in immigrants' lives. Zain Abdullah takes us inside the lives of these new immigrants and shows how they deal with being a double minority in a country where both blacks and Muslims are stigmatized. Dealing with this dual identity, Abdullah discovers, is extraordinarily complex. Some longtime residents embrace these immigrants and see their arrival as an opportunity to reclaim their African heritage, while others see the immigrants as scornful invaders. In turn, African immigrants often take a particularly harsh view of their new neighbors, buying into the worst stereotypes about American-born blacks being lazy and incorrigible. And while there has long been a large Muslim presence in Harlem, and residents often see Islam as a force for social good, African-born Muslims see their Islamic identity disregarded by most of their neighbors. Abdullah weaves together the stories of these African Muslims to paint a fascinating portrait of a community's efforts to carve out space for itself in a new country.
