Black Mecca: The African Muslims of Harlem
Zain Abdullah's carefully written ethnography, Black Mecca, tells the story of West Africans in Harlem, New York, with a particular focus on how these transmigrants describe their everyday lives in America, maintain a sense of connection to African homelands, and negotiate a complicated and cat...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford Univ. Press
2011
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Sociology of religion
Year: 2011, Volume: 72, Issue: 4, Pages: 488-490 |
| Review of: | Black Mecca (New York, N.Y.[u. a.] : Oxford Univ. Press, 2010) (Jackson, John L.)
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| Summary: | Zain Abdullah's carefully written ethnography, Black Mecca, tells the story of West Africans in Harlem, New York, with a particular focus on how these transmigrants describe their everyday lives in America, maintain a sense of connection to African homelands, and negotiate a complicated and cathected relationship with African Americans., Emphasizing the ways in which vernacular theories of racial solidarity intersect with religious beliefs and practices, Abdullah argues that these Africans émigrés navigate an urban landscape of Diasporic difference that produces another variety of that oft-cited Duboisian notion of “double consciousness. |
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| ISSN: | 1759-8818 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociology of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/socrel/srr058 |