Authors: Michael A. Gomez
ISBN-13: 9780521600798, ISBN-10: 0521600790
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: April 2005
Edition: New Edition
Michael A. Gomez is Professor of History at New York University. He is the author of Pragmatism in the Age of Jihad: The Precolonial State of Bundu (Cambridge, 1992) and Exchanging our Country Marks: The Transformation of African Identities in the Colonial and Antebellum South (1998). His research, teaching interests, and publications include the African diaspora, Islam, and West African history. He currently serves as director of the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora.
A social history of the experiences of African Muslims and their descendants throughout the Americas.
1 | Ladinos, Gelofes, and Mandingas | 3 |
2 | Caribbean crescent | 47 |
3 | Brazilian Sambas | 91 |
4 | Muslims in New York | 128 |
5 | Founding mothers and fathers of a different sort : African Muslims in the early North American South | 143 |
Interlude : into a glass darkly - elisive communities | 185 | |
6 | Breaking away : Noble Drew Ali and the foundations of contemporary Islam in African America | 203 |
7 | The nation | 276 |
8 | Malcolm | 331 |