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" Black Islamic Evangelization in the American South "
Chester Warren Cornell
White, Calvin
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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805051
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TL49894
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2042580662; 10814142
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Gharabaghi, Hadi Parandeh
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Black Islamic Evangelization in the American South\ Chester Warren CornellWhite, Calvin
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University of Arkansas
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2018
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Ph.D.
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History
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2018
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126
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Committee members: Chappell, David; Gigantino, Jim
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-0-355-92712-2
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Broadly speaking, my research focus is on African American religion, with particular interest in the various manifestations of black Islam in the United States. I am particularly interested in the question “Has religion served as an opiate or stimulant for black political protest?” And my research attempts to answer it by chronicling the experiences of black Muslims in southern prisons. My dissertation builds on Michelle Alexander’s groundbreaking book <i>The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness</i> (2010). Alexander argues that African Americans were not over-represented in America’s prisons in the 1970s, but with President Reagan’s War on Drugs initiative in the early 1980s, black incarceration exploded. America’s black urban poor became the targets of government laws that meted out harsh penalties for crack possession. As a result, the criminal justice system became a new tool of white social control of black Americans, replacing the old system of Jim Crow segregation. Now, America’s prisons are the institutions depriving large numbers of African and Hispanic Americans of their democratic rights, even after they are released. If our prison system is a breeding ground for perpetuating white dominance, a new Jim Crow, then ultimately I ask if religion plays a vital role in motivating black communities to protest and demand reforms.
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African American Studies; Religious history; Islamic Studies
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Philosophy, religion and theology;Social sciences;Alexander, Michelle;War on drugs
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White, Calvin
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HistoryUniversity of Arkansas
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