A nation can rise no higher than its women : African American Muslim Women in the Movement for Black Self Determination, 1950-1975 / Bayyinah S. Jeffries.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jeffries, Bayyinah S., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nation of Islam (Chicago, Ill.)--History--20th century.

Nation of Islam (Chicago, Ill.).

Black Muslims--Social conditions.

Black Muslims.

Muslim women--United States--Social conditions.

Muslim women.

African American women--United States--Social conditions.

African American women.

Social conditions.

History.

United States.

Physical Description:

xii, 173 page : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham [Md.] : Lexington Books, 2014.

Summary:

A Nation Can Rise No Higher Than Its Women: African American Muslim Women in the Movement for Black Self Determination, 1950-1975 challenges traditional notions and interpretations of African American, particularly women, who joined the Original Nation of Islam (ONOI) during the Civil Rights-Black Power era. This book is the first major investigation of the subject that engages a wide scope of women from "The Nation" and utilizes a wealth of primary documents and personal interviews to reveal the importance of women in this community. Bayyinah S. Jeffries reveals that women were respected in the movement and maintained a very clear and often sought after voice in the advancement of the ONOI. A Nation Can Rise No Higher Than Its Women replaces the typical portrait of the subservient and irrelevant African American Muslim woman with a far more accurate picture of their integral leadership and substantial contributions to the rise of Islam and black consciousness in the self-determination movement in the United States and beyond during the Civil Rights-Black Power era. Book jacket.

Contents:

Upon the education of its people rests the fate of a nation : the struggle for self-determination

African American Muslim women in the Nation of Islam movement : appeals, benefits, and outcomes

"Raising her voice" : writings by, for and about women in Muhammad Speaks newspaper

African American activism : the Muslim community contribution, 1960-1975

Crossing borders : toward a transnational narrative in the struggle.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-167) and index.

ISBN:

9780739176535

0739176536

OCLC:

867283751