Black crescent : the experience and legacy of African Muslims in the Americas / Michael A. Gomez.
Author: Gomez, Michael Angelo, 1955-
Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
ISBN: 0521840953 (hardcover)
0521600790 (pbk.)
Description: x, 385 p. : ill., maps ; 25cm.
Subject: African Americans History.
Africans America History.
Muslims America History.
Islam America History.
Africans America Religion.
African Americans Religion.
Muslims, Black America History.
Slavery America History.
United States Race relations.
America Race relations.
Contents: Ladinos, Gelofes, and Mandingas -- Caribbean crescent -- Brazilian sambas -- Muslims in New York -- Founding mothers and fathers of a different sort : African Muslims in the early North American South -- Breaking away : Noble Drew Ali and the foundations of contemporary Islam in African America -- The nation -- Malcolm.