Africana Faith

James L. Conyers, Jr., Ph.D., Director, African American Studies Program, University Professor of African American Studies, University of Houston, African American Studies Program. Additionally, he is the founding editor of Africana Studies: A Review of Social Science Research at Transaction Publishers.

• Preface viiAcknowledgments ixPART I: HISTORICAL OVERVIEW 11 Notes in Negro American Influences on the Emergenceof African Nationalism (1960)George Shepperson 32 Islam as a Factor in West African Culture (1911)George W. Ellis 233 Muslims in Early America (1994)Michael A. Gomez 47PART II: SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION 914 The Voodoo Cult among Negro Migrants in Detroit (1938)Erdmann Doane Beyon 935 Elijah in the Wilderness (1960)Nat Hentoff 1076 Registerested with Allah (1997)Arna Bontemps and Jack Conroy 1177 Moorish Science Temple of America (1957)Arthur H. Fauset 1418 Negro Nationalism and the Black Muslims (1962)Claude Lightfoot 153PART III: POLITICS OF RELIGION 1739 The Black Muslims and the Negro American’sQuest for Communion: A Case Study in theGenesis of Negro Protest Movements (1969)Howard Kaplan 17510 The Black Muslim Movement and the AmericanConstitutional System (1983)Oliver Jones Jr. 19111 Black Muslims and the Police (1965)Lee P. Brown 211PART

Africana Faith: A Religious History of the African American Crusade in Islam has that rare virtue of being a necessary text. In breadth, creative organization, and nuance, the anthology works on many levels as James Conyers has assembled works offering analyses of African American Muslims within the context of American historiography and a broad array of debates across the social sciences. A classic reader is born!——Lewis Gordon, author of An Introduction to Africana Philosophy