Middle East Media and Book Reviews Online Volume 1, Issue 1 | Page 70

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The author successfully shows “the relatively recent histories linking blackness, Islam and the Muslim Third World through politics and art” (p.
190). In doing so, the author powerfully ‘de-parochializes’ a tradition of cultural, literary, cinematic and musical productions and producers form a
bedrock of Black Muslim activism and radicalism that internationalized the larger American black struggle for freedom within the contexts of
racism, white supremacy, capitalism, colonialism and imperialism. As a result, he provides an invaluable contribution—indeed intervention—into
the critical study of the ways in which Islamophobia is intertwined with America’s tradition of controlling dissent. But more so, he provides a
historical cartography of how the struggle for black liberation has been itself interwoven with the political struggles of the Muslim Third World.

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