Black Star, Crescent Moon: The Muslim International and Black Freedom Beyond America (en Inglés)
Reseña del libro "Black Star, Crescent Moon: The Muslim International and Black Freedom Beyond America (en Inglés)"
\u201cThe same rebellion, the same impatience, the same anger that exists in the hearts of the dark people in Africa and Asia,\u201d Malcolm X declared in a 1962 speech, \u201cis existing in the hearts and minds of 20 million black people in this country who have been just as thoroughly colonized as the people in Africa and Asia.\u201d Four decades later, the hip-hop artist Talib Kweli gave voice to a similar Pan-African sentiment in the song \u201cK.O.S. (Determination)\u201d: \u201cThe African diaspora represents strength in numbers, a giant can't slumber forever.\u201dLinking discontent and unrest in Harlem and Los Angeles to anticolonial revolution in Algeria, Egypt, and elsewhere, Black leaders in the United States have frequently looked to the anti-imperialist movements and antiracist rhetoric of the Muslim Third World for inspiration. In Black Star, Crescent Moon, Sohail Daulatzai maps the rich, shared history between Black Muslims, Black radicals, and the Muslim Third World, showing how Black artists and activists imagined themselves not as national minorities but as part of a global majority, connected to larger communities of resistance. Daulatzai traces these interactions and alliances from the Civil Rights movement and the Black Power era to the \u201cWar on Terror,\u201d placing them within a broader framework of American imperialism, Black identity, and the global nature of white oppression.From Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali to contemporary artists and activists like Rakim and Mos Def, Black Star, Crescent Moon reveals how Muslim resistance to imperialism came to occupy a central position within the Black radical imagination, offering a new perspective on the political and cultural history of Black internationalism from the 1950s to the present.
