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DECLARATION
CERTIFICATE
CONTENTS
Preface
1 Black man in white America: sufferings and struggles
Negroes or Afro-Americans
African states and the Christian purpose in slavery
From indentured servants to genuine slaves
Early resistance
Slavery in the north and the south
Status of the slaves in the early period
Predicament of the Africans
Fish out of water
Black man comes to terms
Doctrines of negro inferiority and pro-slavery arguments
Christian attitude to slavery
The house slave and the field slave
Denial of basic rights
More hardships and further struggles
Emancipation proclamation
Cry for white supremacy
Free, but not equal: blacks look for a way
2 Return to the roots: The Islam experience
Cultural genocide and the devolopment of black consciousness
Two trends: Integration and separation
Search for identity and the emergence of black nationalism
The Moorish science temple movement and the Garveyite African nationalism
Islam experience: The lost found nation of Islam in the wilderness of North America
W. D. Fard and his mission
Elijah Muhammad and the Nation of Islam
Malcolm X and the rise of the nation
Goals of the movement
a) The united front of black Men
b) Racial separation
c) Economic independence
d) A separate nation for the blacks
Doctrines and myths
a) Black People are not Negroes
b) The Lost Found Nation of islam
c) Allah comes to the rescue
d) The original man and yacubs creation
e) Shabazz and his tribe
f) The myth of the magnolias and the doctrine of the superiority of the black men
g) The Armageddon war
Morality and discipline
The organisational methods
Responses of the traditional Muslims
3 Black literature and the Islam experience
The Harelm renaissance of 1920s
The fifties and Early sixties
Late sixties and seventies
The manifest Islam experience
4 Black cultural revolution and the new black aesthetics
Askia Muhammad toure
Ron Karenga and the Kawaida movement
Amiri Baraka and the black cultural revolution
The black arts movement and the new black aesthetics
The black arts repertoire theatre school
Jazz: The black music
5 Through authors and works
Fiction and drama
Poetry
1 leroy
2 We Own the Night
3 SOS
Alex Haleys roots
The Malcolm X phenomenon
The autobiography of Malcolm X and the prison literature in America
6 Conclusion
Malcolms split with Muhammad
Organization of Afro-American unity
Assassination of Malcolm X and the Malcolm X heritage
Nation of Islam after Muhammad
Warith Deen Muhammad and the American Muslim Mission
Black liberation, socialist revolution and the Malcolm phenomenon
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