عنوان

'Those Who Say Don't Know and Those Who Know Don't Say': The Nation of Islam and the Politics of Black Nationalism, 1930-1975

Number

TL49716

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

انگلیسی

Title Proper

'Those Who Say Don't Know and Those Who Know Don't Say': The Nation of Islam and the Politics of Black Nationalism, 1930-1975

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Garrett A. Felber

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Countryman, Matthew J.

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of Michigan

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2017

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

405

Text of Note

Committee members: Countryman, Matthew J; Randolph, Sherie Michelle; Thompson, Heather Ann; Von Eschen, Penny M; Ward, Stephen M

Text of Note

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-0-355-36524-5

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D.

Discipline of degree

American Culture

Body granting the degree

University of Michigan

Text preceding or following the note

2017

Text of Note

This dissertation demonstrates the centrality of the Nation of Islam (NOI) and black nationalist politics to the modern black freedom movement. The Nation of Islam's activism in prisons, courtrooms, and on college campuses-spaces both familiar and unfamiliar to narratives of black struggle-broadens our understanding of black politics during the postwar period. The NOI was not apolitical as some scholars have claimed. It was a religious black nationalist organization which pursued its political objectives with intentionality. While its politics and religion were sometimes in tension, they should not be seen in contradiction. Black nationalism's importance has often been discussed only insofar as it shaped the development of Black Power in the late 1960s. However, it was a crucial stream of black political thought during the postwar period and played a significant role in shaping the discourse, aims, and objectives of these freedom struggles.

African American Studies; American studies; Black history; Islamic Studies

Subject Term

Social sciences;African-American history;Black nationalism;Black power;Civil rights movement;Prisoners' rights movement

Aljaber, Malalla Abdulrahman

Countryman, Matthew J.

Subdivision

American Culture

University of Michigan

Call Number

1989753757; 10670270

Electronic name

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[Thesis]

276903

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