Stephen C. Finley offers a new look at the religious practices and discourses of the Nation of Islam, showing how the group and its leaders used multiple religious and esoteric symbols to locate black bodies as sites of religious meaning.
Stephen C. Finley offers a new look at the religious practices and discourses of the Nation of Islam, showing how the group and its leaders used multiple religious and esoteric symbols to locate black bodies as sites of religious meaning.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
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Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People
Stephen C. Finley is Inaugural Chair, Department of African and African American Studies at Louisiana State University, and coeditor of The Religion of White Rage: White Workers, Religious Fervor, and the Myth of Black Racial Progress and Esotericism in African American Religious Experience.
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Acknowledgments ix Introduction. Black Bodies In- and Out-of-Place: Rereading the Nation of Islam through a Theory of the Body 1 1. Elijah Muhammad, the Myth of Yakub, and the Critique of “Whitenized” Black Embodiment 15 2. Elijah Muhammad, Transcendent Blackness, and the Construction of Ideal Black Bodies 46 3. Malcolm X and the Politics of Resistance: Visible Bodies, Language, and the Implied Critique of Elijah Muhammad 74 4. Warith Deen Mohammed and the Nation of Islam: Race and Black Embodiment in “Islamic” Form 100 5. Mothership Connections: Louis Farrakhan as the Culmination of Muslim Ideals in the Nation of Islam 131 Conclusion. (Re)forming Black Embodiment, White Supremacy, and the Nation of Islam's Class(ist) Response 158 Wheels, Wombs, and Women: An Epilogue 174 The “Louis Farrakhan” That the Public Does Not Know, or Doesn’t Want to Know?: An Afterword 189 Farrakhan’s Swan Song? A Postscript 198 Notes 201 Bibliography 235 Index 245
Acknowledgments ix Introduction. Black Bodies In- and Out-of-Place: Rereading the Nation of Islam through a Theory of the Body 1 1. Elijah Muhammad, the Myth of Yakub, and the Critique of “Whitenized” Black Embodiment 15 2. Elijah Muhammad, Transcendent Blackness, and the Construction of Ideal Black Bodies 46 3. Malcolm X and the Politics of Resistance: Visible Bodies, Language, and the Implied Critique of Elijah Muhammad 74 4. Warith Deen Mohammed and the Nation of Islam: Race and Black Embodiment in “Islamic” Form 100 5. Mothership Connections: Louis Farrakhan as the Culmination of Muslim Ideals in the Nation of Islam 131 Conclusion. (Re)forming Black Embodiment, White Supremacy, and the Nation of Islam's Class(ist) Response 158 Wheels, Wombs, and Women: An Epilogue 174 The “Louis Farrakhan” That the Public Does Not Know, or Doesn’t Want to Know?: An Afterword 189 Farrakhan’s Swan Song? A Postscript 198 Notes 201 Bibliography 235 Index 245
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