Black Crescent

Author : Michael A. Gomez
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2005-03-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781316583012

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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.

Author : Michael A. Gomez
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2005-03-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0521840953

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Black Crescent by Michael A. Gomez Pdf

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.

Author : Maria del Mar Logroño Narbona,Paulo G. Pinto,John Tofik Karam
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781477302293

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Crescent Over Another Horizon by Maria del Mar Logroño Narbona,Paulo G. Pinto,John Tofik Karam Pdf

Muslims have been shaping the Americas and the Caribbean for more than five hundred years, yet this interplay is frequently overlooked or misconstrued. Brimming with revelations that synthesize area and ethnic studies, Crescent over Another Horizon presents a portrait of Islam’s unity as it evolved through plural formulations of identity, power, and belonging. Offering a Latino American perspective on a wider Islamic world, the editors overturn the conventional perception of Muslim communities in the New World, arguing that their characterization as “minorities” obscures the interplay of ethnicity and religion that continues to foster transnational ties. Bringing together studies of Iberian colonists, enslaved Africans, indentured South Asians, migrant Arabs, and Latino and Latin American converts, the volume captures the power-laden processes at work in religious conversion or resistance. Throughout each analysis—spanning times of inquisition, conquest, repressive nationalism, and anti-terror security protocols—the authors offer innovative frameworks to probe the ways in which racialized Islam has facilitated the building of new national identities while fostering a double-edged marginalization. The subjects of the essays transition from imperialism (with studies of morisco converts to Christianity, West African slave uprisings, and Muslim and Hindu South Asian indentured laborers in Dutch Suriname) to the contemporary Muslim presence in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and Trinidad, completed by a timely examination of the United States, including Muslim communities in “Hispanicized” South Florida and the agency of Latina conversion. The result is a fresh perspective that opens new horizons for a vibrant range of fields.

Author : Dev Jarrett
Publisher : Permuted Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781618685865

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Dark Crescent by Dev Jarrett Pdf

If you could change the future, would you? Bud Primrose, assistant coach of a Little League team, gets smacked in the head with a line drive and wakes up in the hospital with a kind of second sight. If you saw a stranger’s death coming, would you try to save her? He sees others' deaths hours before they occur. When he uses this strange new ability to save a woman from a brutal murder, he becomes the thwarted next target. If you had the power, would you use it? Now he must do everything he can to save himself and the woman he loves from the razor-wielding maniac bent on payback.

Author : Sohail Daulatzai
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780816675869

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Black Star, Crescent Moon by Sohail Daulatzai Pdf

Linking discontent and unrest in Harlem and Los Angeles to anticolonial revolution in Algeria, Egypt, and elsewhere, Black leaders in the United States have frequently looked to the anti-imperialist movements and antiracist rhetoric of the Muslim Third World for inspiration. Daulatzai maps the shared history between Black Muslims, Black radicals, and the Muslim Third World, showing how Black artists and activists imagined themselves not as national minorities but as part of a global majority, connected to larger communities of resistance. From publisher description.

Author : Edward E. Curtis IV,Danielle Brune Sigler
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780253004086

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The New Black Gods by Edward E. Curtis IV,Danielle Brune Sigler Pdf

Taking the influential work of Arthur Huff Fauset as a starting point to break down the false dichotomy that exists between mainstream and marginal, a new generation of scholars offers fresh ideas for understanding the religious expressions of African Americans in the United States. Fauset's 1944 classic, Black Gods of the Metropolis, launched original methods and theories for thinking about African American religions as modern, cosmopolitan, and democratic. The essays in this collection show the diversity of African American religion in the wake of the Great Migration and consider the full field of African American religion from Pentecostalism to Black Judaism, Black Islam, and Father Divine's Peace Mission Movement. As a whole, they create a dynamic, humanistic, and thoroughly interdisciplinary understanding of African American religious history and life. This book is essential reading for anyone who studies the African American experience.

Author : LaKisha Michelle Simmons
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781469622811

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Crescent City Girls by LaKisha Michelle Simmons Pdf

What was it like to grow up black and female in the segregated South? To answer this question, LaKisha Simmons blends social history and cultural studies, recreating children's streets and neighborhoods within Jim Crow New Orleans and offering a rare look into black girls' personal lives. Simmons argues that these children faced the difficult task of adhering to middle-class expectations of purity and respectability even as they encountered the daily realities of Jim Crow violence, which included interracial sexual aggression, street harassment, and presumptions of black girls' impurity. Simmons makes use of oral histories, the black and white press, social workers' reports, police reports, girls' fiction writing, and photography to tell the stories of individual girls: some from poor, working-class families; some from middle-class, "respectable" families; and some caught in the Jim Crow judicial system. These voices come together to create a group biography of ordinary girls living in an extraordinary time, girls who did not intend to make history but whose stories transform our understanding of both segregation and childhood.

Author : Roland H. Wauer
Publisher : Big Earth Publishing
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1555663478

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Butterflies of the Lower Rio Grande Valley by Roland H. Wauer Pdf

Roland Wauer's "Butterflies of the Lower Rio Grande Valley" is the only field guide to cover all the reported species in what he calls the "number one butterfly area" in the country. This book includes a description of each species, when and where they can be found, a comparison of similar species, and additional remarks.

Author : Jacob Rama Berman
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814789506

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American Arabesque by Jacob Rama Berman Pdf

Part of the American Literatures Initiative Series American Arabesque examines representations of Arabs, Islam and the Near East in nineteenth-century American culture, arguing that these representations play a significant role in the development of American national identity over the century, revealing largely unexplored exchanges between these two cultural traditions that will alter how we understand them today. Moving from the period of America's engagement in the Barbary Wars through the Holy Land travel mania in the years of Jacksonian expansion and into the writings of romantics such as Edgar Allen Poe, the book argues that not only were Arabs and Muslims prominently featured in nineteenth-century literature, but that the differences writers established between figures such as Moors, Bedouins, Turks and Orientals provide proof of the transnational scope of domestic racial politics. Drawing on both English and Arabic language sources, Berman contends that the fluidity and instability of the term Arab as it appears in captivity narratives, travel narratives, imaginative literature, and ethnic literature simultaneously instantiate and undermine definitions of the American nation and American citizenship.

Author : Standard Poland-China Record Association, Maryville, Mo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1026 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Poland-China swine
ISBN : UCAL:B3254153

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Standard Poland-China Record by Standard Poland-China Record Association, Maryville, Mo Pdf

Author : Hermann August Hagen,John Gottlieb Morris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : Butterflies
ISBN : UIUC:30112009744902

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Synopsis of the Described Lepidoptera of North America by Hermann August Hagen,John Gottlieb Morris Pdf

Author : Asa Fitch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Beneficial insects
ISBN : NYPL:33433011002478

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Reports on the Noxious, Beneficial and Other Insects of the State of New York by Asa Fitch Pdf

Author : New York (State). Legislature. Assembly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1028 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B2997697

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Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York by New York (State). Legislature. Assembly Pdf

Author : Leonard Howard Lloyd Irby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Birds
ISBN : HARVARD:32044107221152

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British Birds by Leonard Howard Lloyd Irby Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1104 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Trademarks
ISBN : WISC:89098411945

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Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office by Anonim Pdf