Description |
1 online resource (289 pages) |
Contents |
Cover; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION: An Empire State of Mind; 1. "You Remember Dien Bien Phu!" Malcolm X and the Third World Rising; 2. To the East, Blackwards: Black Power, Radical Cinema, and the Muslim Third World; 3. Return of the Mecca: Public Enemies, Reaganism, and the Birth of Hip-Hop; 4. "Ghost in the House": Muhammad Ali and the Rise of the "Green Menace"; 5. Protect Ya Neck: Global Incarceration, Islam, and the Black Radical Imagination; EPILOGUE: War, Repression, and the Legacy of Malcolm |
Summary |
"The same rebellion, the same impatience, the same anger that exists in the hearts of the dark people in Africa and Asia," Malcolm X declared in a 1962 speech, "is existing in the hearts and minds of 20 million black people in this country who have been just as thoroughly colonized as the people in Africa and Asia." Four decades later, the hip-hop artist Talib Kweli gave voice to a similar Pan-African sentiment in the song "K.O.S. (Determination)": "The African diaspora represents strength in numbers, a giant can't slumber forever.". Linking discontent and unrest in Harlem and Los Angeles to a |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
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X, Malcolm, 1925-1965 -- Influence
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X, Malcolm, 1925-1965 fast |
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Black people -- Politics and government
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Muslims -- Political activity.
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Civil rights movements -- History
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Black people -- Intellectual life
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Muslims -- Intellectual life.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights.
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HISTORY -- United States -- General.
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Black people -- Intellectual life
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Black people -- Politics and government
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Civil rights movements
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Muslims -- Intellectual life
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Muslims -- Political activity
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History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780816681815 |
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0816681813 |
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9781452947600 |
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1452947600 |
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