Debra Majeed's ethnography of contemporary African American Muslim polygyny illuminates the varieties of and struggles within a type of family whose form and function is contrary to U.S. civil law.
Africana Islamic Studies highlights the diverse contributions that African Americans have made to the formation of Islam in the United States. It specifically focuses on the Nation of Islam and its patriarch Elijah Muhammad with regards to the African American Islamic experience…
"The status of Islam in Western societies remains deeply contentious. Countering strident claims on both the right and left, Legal Integration of Islam offers an empirically informed analysis of how four liberal democracies - France, Germany, Canada, and the United States - have…
The status of Islam in Western societies remains deeply contentious. Countering strident claims on both the right and left, Legal Integration of Islam offers an empirically informed analysis of how four liberal democracies--France, Germany, Canada, and the United States--have re…
Are Milton's Paradise Lost, Ronald Reagan's "Star Wars" missile defense program, our culture's fascination with UFOs and alien abductions, and Louis Farrakhan's views on racial Armageddon somehow linked? In Children of Ezekiel Michael Lieb reveals the connections between these p…
Are Milton's Paradise Lost, Ronald Reagan's "Star Wars" missile defense program, our culture's fascination with UFOs and alien abductions, and Louis Farrakhan's views on racial Armageddon somehow linked? In Children of Ezekiel Michael Lieb reveals the connections between these p…
This dissertation situates concerns of food access and nutrition at the center of United States struggles for racial justice during the long civil rights era. The persistence of widespread hunger amidst agricultural abundance created a need and an organizing opportunity that pro…
On January 9, 1961, Folsom State Prison inmate Jesse L. Ferguson filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus to the Supreme Court of the State of California. Ferguson, a member of the Nation of Islam, alleged that prison administrators had denied Muslim inmates the right to fre…
The adoption of the teachings of L. Ron Hubbard by Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam has been treated in the press with a mixture of scorn and incredulity. But members of the Nation of Islam have made tremendous personal sacrifices (and the Church of Scientology has cut st…
In this dissertation, I revise our understanding of race and ethnicity, black nationalism, and Afrocentricity through an examination of the history of twentieth-century black nationalism. The overarching goal of the project is to reconceptualize race and ethnicity. Sociologists …
The classical grounded theory method was used to examine the patterns of behavior demonstrated by current and former members of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense and the Nation of Islam. The data collection procedures included observations, interviews, and field notes. A …
Wallace Fard, founder of the Nation of Islam (NOI), drew on a variety of sources in crafting his movement's early teachings. Sociologist Eerdman Beynon was the first scholar to study the NOI, and his seminal 1938 article remains an important source on the movement's early influe…
The purpose of this study is to determine what motivated Malcolm X and Nelson Mandela to assume positions of principled political leadership, and to observe their leadership attributes. The teachings of the Nation of Islam motivated X to be a political activist, and the Nation o…
This study argues that there are three major themes which emerge from a critical analysis of the early life and leadership of Elijah Muhammad. The first of these motifs is his centrality to the historical evolution of black nationalism and Islam as a counter-religion among Afric…