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Islam and the Blackamerican - Looking Toward the Third Resurrection (Paperback)
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Islam and the Blackamerican - Looking Toward the Third Resurrection (Paperback)
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Sherman Jackson offers a trenchant examination of the career of
Islam among the blacks of America. Jackson notes that no one has
offered a convincing explanation of why Islam spread among
Blackamericans (a coinage he explains and defends) but not among
white Americans or Hispanics. The assumption has been that there is
an African connection. In fact, Jackson shows, none of the
distinctive features of African Islam appear in the proto-Islamic,
black nationalist movements of the early 20th century. Instead, he
argues, Islam owes its momentum to the distinctively American
phenomenon of "Black Religion," a God-centered holy protest against
anti-black racism.
Islam in Black America begins as part of a communal search for
tools with which to combat racism and redefine American blackness.
The 1965 repeal of the National Origins Quota System led to a
massive influx of foreign Muslims, who soon greatly outnumbered the
blacks whom they found here practicing an indigenous form of Islam.
Immigrant Muslims would come to exercise a virtual monopoly over
the definition of a properly constituted Islamic life in America.
For these Muslims, the nemesis was not white supremacy, but "the
West." In their eyes, the West was not a racial, but a religious
and civilizational threat. American blacks soon learned that
opposition to the West and opposition to white supremacy were not
synonymous. Indeed, says Jackson, one cannot be anti-Western
without also being on some level anti-Blackamerican. Like the Black
Christians of an earlier era struggling to find their voice in the
context of Western Christianity, Black Muslims now began to strive
to find their black, American voice in the context of the
super-tradition of historical Islam. Jackson argues that Muslim
tradition itself contains the resources to reconcile blackness,
American-ness, and adherence to Islam. It is essential, he
contends, to preserve within Islam the legitimate aspects of Black
Religion, in order to avoid what Stephen Carter calls the
domestication of religion, whereby religion is rendered incapable
of resisting the state and the dominant culture. At the same time,
Jackson says, it is essential for Blackamerican Muslims to reject
an exclusive focus on the public square and the secular goal of
subverting white supremacy (and Arab/immigrant supremacy) and to
develop a tradition of personal piety and spirituality attuned to
distinctive Blackamerican needs and idiosyncrasies.
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