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Selected Books: Chicago Focus
Inside the Nation of Islam by Call Number: Chicago Collection (1st floor) ; 297.87 W588i2001ISBN: 9780813020822Publication Date: 2001-09-18At the heart of Inside the Nation is White's chronicle of his own sojourn during the 1980s and 1990s as a registered Muslim--from his days as a foot soldier in the Fruit of Islam, the Nation's military organization, through his rise to the status of minister and advisor to the leadership.
Painting the Gospel: Black Public Art and Religion in Chicago by ISBN: 9780252039928Publication Date: 2016-03-01Innovative and lavishly illustrated, Painting the Gospel offers an indispensable contribution to conversations about African American art, theology, politics, and identity in Chicago.
The Rise of Chicago's Black Metropolis, 1920-1929 by Call Number: Chicago Collection (1st floor) ; 305.896073 R3236RISBN: 9780252036231Publication Date: 2011-04-15In this book, Christopher Robert Reed describes the rise of African Americans in Chicago's political economy, bringing to life the fleeting vibrancy of this dynamic period of racial consciousness and solidarity.
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The Bahá'í Faith and African American History by ISBN: 9781498570046Publication Date: 2021-09-09Examines the intersection of African American history with that of the Bahá'í Faith in the United States. Since the turn of the twentieth century, Bahá'ís in America have actively worked to establish interracial harmony within its own ranks and to contribute to social justice in the wider community, becoming in the process one of the country's most diverse religious bodies.
Black Buddhists and the Black Radical Tradition by ISBN: 9781479810499Publication Date: 2022-04-05In Black Buddhists and the Black Radical Tradition, Rima Vesely-Flad examines the distinctive features of Black-identifying Buddhist practitioners, arguing that Black Buddhists interpret Buddhist teachings in ways that are congruent with Black radical thought.
Have You Got Good Religion? Black Women's Faith, Courage, and Moral Leadership in the Civil Rights Movement by ISBN: 9780252087769Publication Date: 2024-03-26The thousands of Black Churchwomen who took part in civil rights protests drew on faith, courage, and moral imagination to acquire the lived experiences at the heart of the answers to that question.
We Pursue Our Magic: A Spiritual History of Black Feminism by ISBN: 9781469674896Publication Date: 2023-09-05Drawing on the collected archives of distinguished twentieth-century Black woman writers such as Lucille Clifton, Audre Lorde, Toni Cade Bambara, Lorraine Hansberry, and others, Marina Magloire traces a new history of Black feminist thought in relation to Afro-diasporic religion.
Activism in the Name of God: Religion and Black Feminist Public Intellectuals from the Nineteenth Century to the Present by ISBN: 9781496845672Publication Date: 2023-08-16Activism in the Name of God recognizes and celebrates twelve Black feminists who have made an indelible mark not just on Black women's intellectual history but on American intellectual history in general.
Terror and Triumph: The Nature of Black Religion by ISBN: 9781506474731Publication Date: 2022-07-26Given the unique history of African Americans and their diverse religious flowering in Black Christianity, the Nation of Islam, voodoo, and others, what is the heart and soul of African American religious life?
Those Who Know Don't Say: The Nation of Islam, the Black Freedom Movement, and the Carceral State by ISBN: 1469653842Publication Date: 2022In this bold political and intellectual history of the Nation of Islam, Garrett Felber centres the Nation in the Civil Rights Era and the making of the modern carceral state.
The Princess and the Prophet: The Secret History of Magic, Race, and Moorish Muslims in America by ISBN: 9780807067260Publication Date: 2020-03-03The just-discovered story of how two enigmatic circus performers and the cultural ferment of the Gilded Age sparked the Black Muslim movement in America.
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