"A Sword of Wrath, the Executor of Sinister Adventures": Domestic Islamophobia and International Black Muslim Solidarities during the Cold War
FBI repression of "Black Muslim" groups such as the Moorish Science Temple of America and the Nation of Islam emerged from institutionalized forms of Islamophobia preceding the War on Terror. This article examines the broader Cold War policies that criminalized Black conversion to Islam as...
| Subtitles: | Roundtable Africana Perspectives on Islamophobia |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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The Pennsylvania State University Press
[2019]
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| In: |
Journal of Africana religions
Year: 2019, Volume: 7, Issue: 1, Pages: 172-179 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
USA, Federal Bureau of Investigation
/ East-West conflict
/ Anti-communism
/ Islamophobia
/ Racism
/ Ideology
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| IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy BJ Islam KBQ North America NBE Anthropology NCD Political ethics TK Recent history ZC Politics in general |
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Volltext (Resolving-System) |
| Summary: | FBI repression of "Black Muslim" groups such as the Moorish Science Temple of America and the Nation of Islam emerged from institutionalized forms of Islamophobia preceding the War on Terror. This article examines the broader Cold War policies that criminalized Black conversion to Islam as a treasonous affiliation with "un-American" forces. |
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| ISSN: | 2165-5413 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of Africana religions
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