The involvement of African Americans with Islam reaches back to the earliest days of the African presence in North America. This book explores these roots in th

Islam is a vital, growing religion in America. Little is known, however, about the religion except through the biased lens of media reports which brand African

Interviews with young Muslims in Chicago explore the complexity of identities formed at the crossroads of Islam and hip hop This groundbreaking study of race, r

**FINALIST for the 2022 PROSE Award in Music & the Performing Arts** **Certificate of Merit, Best Historical Research on Recorded Jazz, given by the 2022 Associ

Explores the stories of African Muslim slaves in the New World. The author argues that although Islam as brought by the Africans did not outlive the last slaves